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...City Council approves Harvard's request to rezone the five-and-a-half acre Shady Hill site, construction of housing on the currently-vacant site could begin by late April or early May, Harold L. Goyette, director of the University Planning Office, said yesterday...
Maintaining vacant rooms, he said, will probably lead to a rent increase. "You can't lose 50, 60, 80, or 100 thousand dollars." he explained...
Many people have been forced out of their homes in the medical area by Harvard's "tactics," and there are now about thirty low-income apartments that are vacant. Harvard has not rented these apartments, despite the fact that a critical housing shortage now exists in Boston. The windows in these apartments are boarded up, and their doors are padlocked shut. Occasionally, whole buildings are demolished, and empty lots and piles of rubble are left behind. The entire neighborhood bears a mark of extinction...
...times, tenants experienced condescension and harassment during committee meetings. On one occasion, the committee was discussing the rental of vacant apartments. In previous months, Harvard had rented to students, hippies, and other transients to case the process of eviction. Tenants requested that rental priority be given to families, and casually used the words "responsible persons" to refer to married couples...
...number of low-income apartments which are in danger thus represent nearly twice the number of low-income units built in the entire metro-palitan area during the past year. And the ?? vacant apartments in the medical area which Harvard has not rented represent nearly one-third of this figure...