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...long rectangular table stands at the front of the main hearing room and about 10 rows of folding chairs are arranged for the tenants, landlords, and attorneys who are scheduled to appear. At any given time on a Wednesday night those chairs are nearly full because the board almost always falls significantly behind schedule. Due to the annoying waiting period in the unusally stuffy concrete chamber where the final stage of the rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face...
After learning that the rent board had embarked on its own program of encouraging landlords to conserve energy members of the tenant's union decided to take their survey results to the board. HRE officials in fact encourage members of the union to seek redress for any grievances against Harvard at the rent board or in court. So HTU Coordinator Michael Turk went to the board to present the survey findings on May 13, along with a half-dozen or so union members...
Cohn then made a statement which union members said afterwards had shocked and disappointed them. "I would think you are in an extraordinarily favorable situation and would stay a Harvard tenant." Cohn told the residents who had invested long hours uncovering what they believed to be HRE's massive wastefulness...
...some ways, then, local tenant activists would be pleased if the University viewed the Craigie Arms case as a precedent and negotiated with angry tenants in the years to come. Some are worried though, that the price paid to tenants in the building may convince the University they can simply buy out residents and empty other buildings for their...
...coordinator Turk added that the settlement, while unquestionably a victory for the residents of Craigie Arms, might lead both Harvard and the Rent Control Board to view landlord-tenant financial settlements as a permissible way to circumvent the city's anti-eviction policies. "The city's interests are very different from the individual tenant's interests." Sullivan, who called the final agreement a "mixed blessing," said...