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Harvard's relations with the tenants it still has were tense through the spring and summer but seemed to quiet down this fall. Michael Turk, an officer of the Harvard Tenants Union, said much of the lull was due to tenant participation in the city council campaign...
Such expenses should not be passed on to tenants, Turk says, if they were caused by neglect in past years. "I think we may be on a collision course with Harvard's 'five-year-plan'" for improvements, Turk said, adding that the HTU drive would center on an effort to force the Rent Board to reinterpret its own guidelines...
...keeping $500,000 in tax abatements instead of passing the savings on to tenants. The tenants have also charged--and in some cases documented--waste and overspending at Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the University's real estate firm. "We plan on being around for some time to come." Michael Turk, a tenants' union organizer, said shortly after the group's formation...
...wrought with waste, that its single mission it to make money for the University, and they are the victims. "Sometime in the mid-1970s, Harvard reviewed its policies on real estate. Until then, we had seen benign neglect; now they are in a new abrasive, expansionist phase," Michael Turk, principal organizer of the Harvard Tenants Union, says...
...part because they are largely protected from the fear of retaliation by the rent-control bureaucracy. In the past few months, activists in many Harvard buildings have come together form the HTU; and though Silverman says the group will probably "fade away" like small-building groups of the past, Turk says the HTU "has the potential to be substantial and enduring. There is a sense of tapping into a really powerful feeling among Harvard tenants...