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...Graduate School of Design decided it wanted to use the four-story brick apartment building for office space. Offices were incompatible with bedrooms and kitchens, and so eviction proceedings began. The first few rulings on the hotly contested case went against the University, which had tried to remove some tenants with valid leases. But Harvard kept up the fight, despite the protests of local leaders that the building represented 16 moderately priced units of increasingly scarce rental housing. The Summer Rd. site was soon the focus of city-University conflict, "the symbol of all that Harvard is trying...
...moment, issues like these are less important to Harvard's foes than winning passage of the anti-expansion ordinance. If, as expected, the law clears the council, the rules that have always governed Cambridge's relations with its most illustrious tenant will change: after 350 years as dealer, the University will pass the cards to its neighbors and a new era may begin. Who knows--President Bok may even make the next parade
...typical Harvard tenant lives in an overheated and drafty apartment: the energy consumed to heat the apartment goes out the window," the letter to Bok states...
...representatives of city tenant groups called the anti-condo law essential to retaining a diverse city. "Will the council be bullied by those, who can only be described as rich squatters?" Christine Baker, a spokesman for the Rent Control Task Force, asked. "Without a guarantee of decent, affordable housing." Cambridge would lose its "uniqueness," Baker said, adding "in the upcoming election we will be at the polls and voting...
...Tenants in the 65-unit building on the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and University Road hung a banner from the front of the building yesterday reading "Save our Homes." A tenant spokesman, Meredith Scammell, told the Cambridge City Council last night that "Cambridge cannot afford to have a building as big as ours sitting empty...