Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month old dispute between Harvard Real Estate's Ware St. tenants and the University got more personal and more serious last week. Daniel J. Giatrelis, an HRE official charged tenant leader Robert Epstein with assault and battery after an argument stemming from the installation of controversial storm windows in apartments at 9-13 Ware...
...hopes that we go away," Turk says. Just to make sure, HRE is trying to hasten the union's departure--a signal that perhaps HTU is beginning to have some small effect on Harvard's decision-making process. HRE has sent an employee to spy on a tenants' meeting, threatened at least one HTU activist with eviction, and broken out the heavy legal artillery to fight tenants at 8 Plympton St. who have been receiving assistance from Turk. At a recent rent control board meeting, HRE attorney Daniel Polvere filed an abnormally long--20 page--brief for Harvard, and stated...
ATHOUGH HRE seems to be employing classic anti-union strategies, Harvard has also shown that it can be pressured into dealing with more than one "specific tenant" at a time. At the Craigie Arms apartments where HTU members have also played a leading role, the University has for more than two months been negotiating with about two dozen residents fighting HRE's attempt to convert the building into luxury housing. In return for moving out, the Craigie tenants are seeking future guarantees about Harvard's commitment to low and moderate-income housing. Apparently Harvard's "policy" of ignoring tenant groups...
...members have been totally foreclosed from offering constructive suggestions to HRE administrators. The most blatant instance of disregard for tenants' efforts to contribute to the improvement of their homes came last May, when HTU released the results of a comprehensive energy-use survey of Harvard-owned buildings. Designed to identify inexpensive means of reducing energy waste, the survey was never formally acknowledged by Harvard. It is fairly easy to understand why HRE administrators would resent off-the-cuff tenant gripes, but it is far more difficult to explain how HRE could close its eyes to a well-researched and carefully...
...Tenants said Sunday that they are united in their fight against Harvard and are not merely holding out for higher relocation fees. The Craigie apartments should remain low-to-moderate-income housing after a $205 million renovation is completed, "especially" because of "what will be built next door." one tenant said. The Craigie building is located adjacent to the site of University Place, a majority Harvard office and luxury housing complex scheduled for construction this spring...