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...will take them a couple of months to get another eviction certificate," David Sullivan, a tenant organizer, said last week. "That will put Harvard in the position of having to evict people in the middle of the winter. I don't know if they will want to do that," Sullivan said...
That selfish interest has moved Harvard sprawling in all directions across Cambridge, community organizers complain. Two of the demands during the student strike of 1969 were for lower rents in University-owned housing and an end to Harvard's incursions on surrounding neighborhoods. Neither has been put into effect, tenant organizer Sullivan says. "Instead, Harvard has recently begun serious real estate investment in the city, and created its own real estate corporation," Sullivan adds. In the last year, the University has tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could...
...with a coherent voice," Sullivan says. "The community relations people are people of good will and they understand the ramifications of Harvard's actions--they've got to get some power," he adds. "It's so frustrating--a phalanx of p.r. types blocks the way to the decision-makers," tenant organizer Sullivan adds. Almost everyone who's angry at Harvard seems to think something in the process of University decision-making is to blame for its problems with the city. "There are no individuals you can single out," says one city official. "The structure is such that it makes...
...result 52 per cent of Cambridge land is tax-exempt. Meanwhile, Cambridge provides the universities with public services--water, fire protection, sewers and the rest. In return, Harvard makes payments in-lieu-of-taxes. They increased the amount paid to the city each year in 1979, but tenant lawyer Sullivan estimates that Harvard still pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property off the tax rolls," the letter to the Board of Overseers states, citing as proof the University's purchase of the Continental Hotel and the refurbishing...
...Tenant organizer David Sullivan called the unfavorable reports on the rent control bills" a major victory for tenants," but termed the vote against the condominium conversion bill hypocritical and said "we have a good chance of winning on the floor...