Word: tenants
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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...
...Those tenants remaining with HRE claim that the housing agency hired by HRE to over see the relocation is limiting the number of apartments each tenant is shown...
...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...
Robert H Kuehn Jr. of Housing Associates, and a University representative who asked not to be identified, both stated yesterday that Harvard plans to honor the May settlement, but an unforeseen housing shortage has temporarily prevented HRE from offering more units HRE-president Sally Zeckhauser and Tenant Relations Director Lorraine Wade refused to comment yesterday on the tenants complaints "The University position on this particular situation is to see [the relocation] implemented with a minimum of fuss," the Universityrepresentative said...
...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...