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...developer's plans to renovate the building hinge on a successful relocation. As their part of the settlement, the tenants in the building during the negotiations agreed to support Harvard efforts to remove the complex from the city's tight housing market The rent board has never granted a removal permit for so many units, and tenant approval is considered vital...
...effort to end tenant opposition to a #2.5-million renovation proposed for the 80 year-old building. HRE which owns a lease on the land, and Housing Associates, the Cambridge-based developer that bought the building to carry out the renovations, signed a complicated agreement that requires HRE to give the tenants "priority for relocation to Harvard owned property or the equivalent" and guarantees them certain lease and rent incentives...
...minds of tenant activists, however, perhaps HRE's most grievous offense is its staunch refusal to recognize the existence and legitimacy of the Harvard Tenants Union, now about a year-and-a-half old. "They seem to hope we go away," Turk said shortly after the union's first anniversary...
While some observers interpret HRE's general attitude toward HTU its treatment of tenant activists as a sign that the union may have the long-term potential of swaying Harvard administrators to greater regard for tenant relations, others note that as long as the University refuses to recognize the union there will be isolated incidents such as the Erickson affair and protracted disputes such as the Ware St. episode. The beginning of direct negotiations between Harvard and the union could produce immediate positive results for both parties, the tenants contend...
...many observers on the Cambridge political scene, it seems that Harvard's tenants are only asking for the same cooperation that the University has recently accorded to neighborhood groups in the University Place negotiations and other cases. From the point of view of Harvard administrators, it may have been far easier to perceive the immediate benefits of working out a solution to the University Place dispute (without it the massive project could have been stalled for months) than to understand the advantages of accepting tenant's gripes on a daily basis. But now that they have a chance to look...