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...Turk calls the policy "disastrous and irresponsible," accusing HRE of trying "to make a nice quick profit" at residents expense...
...Turk said Harvard has definite plans to sell at least five buildings in the Agassiz and Riverside neighborhoods of Cambridge. He added the sales stemmed from a University report which last spring recommended finding additional housing in the community for faculty members...
...selling smaller buildings to Harvard employees. Turk said, the University would be able to dramatically raise rents without city interference. He appealed to the council to consider zoning laws to keep the housing under city rent control...
...Turk said Harvard told the council in June it intended to sell buildings at 2 Riverside Place and at 69 Putnam Ave He declined to say how he learned of the alleged plans to sell three other buildings...
...Turk's latest charges come after a long history of bitter fights between HRE and the Harvard tenants groups, with the city council often backing tenants groups. Most recently, HRE's Craigie Arms apartment building on Mt. Auburn St. has been the subject of a rent control controversy which has led the management company to simply take the units off the rental market