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...have indicated some support. HTU has managed to foster a greater awareness of tenants' rights. The key stumbling block to further progress has been HRE's staunch refusal to recognize the union as legitimate representative of even some of its tenants. In a recent letter to HTU Coordinator Michael Turk. Zeckhauser stated that "it is the policy of Harvard Real Estate. Inc to respond to specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building common areas affecting them." Although Turk's own letter to Zeckhauser sent her response to Turk's personal apartment...
...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...
Zeckhauser's letter to Turk indicates that in cases of disputes between tenants and Harvard, "we have found that tenants' rights and interests were adequately protected by local and state laws administered by a variety of governmental agencies." In other words, HRE officials have taken the posture of the crafty used car salesman who tells his customer attempting to return a lemon: If you don't like it, sue me. Unfortunately for tenants, who have nowhere near the financial resources necessary to combat Harvard's stable of lawyers, fighting the University in court is like going on safari holding...
...Harvard not only should have known" about the Plympton St overcharges. Turk said, "but they did know...
...Mike Turk, a representative of the Harvard Tenants' Union, told the board last night that Polvere's evidence shows that Harvard analyzed all of the rent changes "very closely...