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...continuing effort by Harvard to acknowledge the concerns of the neighborhood and to provide us with responses that we feel are appropriate.” In late December, Harvard stoked community concerns when it acquired another real estate parcel adjacent to the planned site of its relocated Charlesview apartments??although there too the tenant remained on-site. While the University has historically invested in real-estate contiguous to its existing holdings to allow for long-term growth, local residents called on Harvard to improve and lease its existing vacant property holdings in the neighborhood before making further purchases...
...Just down the road, people living in the Charlesview apartments??some of whom who have lived there for the last 40 years—know that they are going to be “moved” by Harvard because their land is a part of the 50-year plan. But these people who will be evicted have no idea of when. In the meantime, the building they currently live in has been deteriorating because no one is willing to fix a place that will soon be razed to the ground...
Between 2001 and 2007, 2,400 new housing units—mostly one or two bedroom apartments??were built in Cambridge. Some of these units are designated affordable housing...
Councillors said they were concerned that new development projects, such as NorthPoint—which will consist of one and two bedroom apartments??will not attract new families to Cambridge...
...that I first met Josephine Fiorentino—then chair of the board of directors for the Charlesview Apartments??she spoke with passion about the historical importance of the 213-unit affordable housing development as a community within Allston. She did not meet with me to dwell on the past or to bemoan the difficult challenges of operating an aging housing complex like Charlesview. She made it abundantly clear that what she and her fellow Charlesview board members were focused on was the long term future of Charlesview; and that, they thought, involved Harvard...