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...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...
...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...
...superintendent, Paul V. Fitzgerald, said yesterday that a tenant on the third floor summoned him at 1:40 a.m. to investigate water that was leaking from Lobig's fourth floor room. Fitzgerald said he opened the door with a pass key about 20 minutes later and found Lobig lying face down on the floor, covered with blood...
...Many tenants are upset about the installation of the new thermopine windows, which they feel will raise their rent unnecessarily in the rent controlled apartment, Mark A. Otterman, a tenant, said yesterday. Otterman added that many tenants believe Harvard is bullying them into accepting the windows and the consequent rent increases despite the less expensive options that were open to HRE for repairing the windows...