Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days into the rent control board's hearing on the tenants' complaint of illegal removals and on the University's petition for approval of the renovation, the tenants agreed to attempt to resolve the dispute through private negotiations with Harvard representatives. The decision was understandable, if perhaps somewhat hasty; the hearing had been going poorly for the tenants with two high-priced and high powered Harvard attorneys consistently besting the residents' ill-prepared and bumbling lawyers. And then there is Harvard's long history of getting what it wants from a five-man board that consistently draws criticism from...
...Meredith Scammell, a tenant representative, said that Harvard has been promising to deliver a final proposal every week since Christmas...
Since the tenants began rent control board proceedings against Harvard, about ten have voluntarily moved out and received compensation from the University for moving expenses, Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant to the vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday. According to O'Neill, about 33 tenants remain iin the Craigie building, and Scammell said that all of the 20 members of the tenant association are still in their apartments...
Harvard and the tenants have repeatedly refused to disclose details of their proposed agreement. But it was disclosed last month that the current cash offer to tenants exceeds Harvard's original proposal of about $1500 for each tenant. And Kuehne has said publicly that his firm intends to provide for 25 per cent of low-and moderate-income housing in the building once renovations are complete...
...testimony before rent control board hearing examiner James Packer, Harvard attorneys contended that such a practice is not prohibited; tenant attorneys argued that vacant apartments represent an effective illegal removal...