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...January 1982 more than one-third of the tenants in one of the largest Harvard-owned apartment buildings voted to deny access to their homes to University workmen seeking to install the new energy-saying windows. More than 30 tenants in the 9-13a Ware St. building said they opposed the University's plans because the thermopane windows would increase their rents by up to $120 per month while other energy-saying measures would probably cut rents...
Harvard proceeded with its plans through the winter despite tenant opposition, and a series of disputes between HRE and Ware St. residents followed. In February, two Ware St. residents reported that they were considering filing charges against HRE for allegedly entering their apartments against their will to install the thermopane windows. A month later the city's building commissioner ordered Harvard to stop working over stairs in the Ware St. building without adequate safety precautions. And finally, towards the end of March, a Ware St. tenant and an HRE worker charged each other with assault and battery in separate criminal...
Harvard completed the window installation in April and is awaiting a rent control hearing June 22 on its request for rent increases generated by the renovations. While agreeing to allow the final stages of the project to proceed. Ware St. residents served notice that they will oppose the rent increases at the board meeting. And the Harvard Tenants Union has asked the rent board for a ruling on Harvard's right to enter tenants apartments to conduct repairs...
...Ware St. story was one of the longest running, but by no means the only, example of Harvard's reluctance to reform its relations with tenants in many of the buildings in a portfolio of 258 properties that together are worth more than $100 million. Some other notable examples include...
...request for an advisory ruling filed last week, stems from a controversy at 9 13a Ware St., where tenants have protested Harvard Real Estate's ongoing installation of high-priced, energy-saving windows...