"The mayor of Cambridge has expressed concern that Harvard students put pressure on the housing market," says Mary H. Power, Harvard's senior director of community relations.
Power says one important aspect of the pilot program is that it would only rent units that were unoccupied.
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"We're not displacing tenants," she says.
Still, block-renting does take available units away from the community for future renting.
"That may be why it is a short-term strategy," Power says.
In the long-term, Harvard still looks to build more nearby housing for its graduate students-an apartment complex in Allston with over 300 beds is slated to open in fall 2003.
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