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Harvard proceeded with its plans through the winter despite tenant opposition, and a series of disputes between HRE and Ware St. residents followed. In February, two Ware St. residents reported that they were considering filing charges against HRE for allegedly entering their apartments against their will to install the thermopane windows. A month later the city's building commissioner ordered Harvard to stop working over stairs in the Ware St. building without adequate safety precautions. And finally, towards the end of March, a Ware St. tenant and an HRE worker charged each other with assault and battery in separate criminal...
...written report would not be issued. Wilkins, a Justice on the Supreme Judicial Court, said that such a report "might be warranted, but to rake over the coals and assess blame isn't as important in the long run" as working quietly behind the scenes to resolve differences. Several tenant leaders and elected officials agreed with City Councilor David Sullivan, who explained that "informal discussions are not public, and so there is no accountability on the part of the University and a lack of being able to be pinned down on specifics...
...Although tenants in a Harvard-owned apartment complex on Mt. Auburn St. are cooperating with the University's plans for renovation, a group of city tenant activities has announced its opposition to the plans...
Members of the Cambridge Rent Control Task Force-a group of five tenants' organizations, including Harvard Tenant's Union (HTU) have asked the city's rent control board to deny Harvard permission to remove the building's units from the rental market to do the renovations. Arguing before a rent board hearing examiner last week, the members claimed that although tenants at the Craigie Arms apartments reached an agreement with the University to vacate their units, granting Harvard the necessary removal permit would increase the strain on the city's already tight housing market...
...addition, the tenant activists claim that the plan to fund the low income housing is infeasible. As part of the agreement, Housing Associates, a Cambridge based development firm, will buy the building from the University to carry out the renovations, with the University retaining the land rights. The developers hope to get federal and state subsidies for the low income units. But activists are skeptical that such funds will be available in time of severe budget cutting. Housing Associates developer. Robert Kuchn was unavailable for comment yesterday...