News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
The Roxbury Tenants of Harvard ratified unanimously last night a relocation housing development proposal for tenants displaced by medical construction.
The proposal was drawn up by the tenants and their urban consultant, John Sharratt. The tenants' association will present the proposal to the Corporation in about three weeks, after it is finalized.
Housing Suggestions
The proposal stipulates that Harvard:
build 200 units of low-income, lowrise housing with a sufficient proportion of three-and four-bedroom apartments;
not demolish existing housing until comparable relocation provisions are made;
initiate immediate repair of safety hazards in existing housing.
The proposal specifies areas for the expansion of the University and its affiliated medical institutions into the surrounding area. It also includes plans for construction of parking garages, special emergency access to hospitals, and relocation of shops and restaurants affected by medical expansion.
Harvard Undecided
The University has not yet decided upon a plan for construction of relocation housing. It has pledged that new housing at comparable rents and in nearby areas will be built before evictions begin in January 1973.
Two members of the Corporation, George F. Bennett and Albert L. Nickerson, are now considering tenant demands for relocation provision and maintenance repair.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.