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There is a problem which I would like to communicate to you which I believe will be of interest to tenants living in Harvard-owned buildings. I am a tenant who has lived at 95 Prescott St. since October 1974, at which time the 85 and 95 Prescott St. apartments were owned by Mr. Harry Gilbert. Some time in 1979/1980 these two buildings were bought and are now managed by Harvard Real Estate...
Avol has spruced up his temporary roost with fresh coats of paint, but residents of the four-story building tell of crumbling plaster, missing windows, faulty plumbing, roaches and rats. "I catch a minimum of ten mice a week," says Tenant Jose Cavasos. Even if Avol substantially improves the building, his eye may be on the bottom line: the apartment house is up for sale...
Although approximately 60 percent of Filipinos are employed in agriculture, 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and wealthy landowners control the bulk of capital and political power. The tenant farmers have the numbers, but the landlords have the money. Both have threatened to take up arms over an unsuitable agrarian reform policy...
...tenant activist summed it up best in this comment on Harvard's real estate actions in the Square: "HRE has an attitude of the less said, the less known, the better." That's not the proper philosophy for Cambridge's number one corporate citizen...
...Tenant activists charge that because of loopholes in the city's rent control laws, Harvard's sales of these small properties leads to high rentals or conversions to non-controlled units after they are sold...