Word: buy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain that such a homeownership tax is not required by law for the next fiscal year, but would have to be voted by the next city council. And the supporters of Proposition 1-2-3 do not support such an exemption for tenants allowed to buy under Proposition 1. Just because we support a choice of homeownership does not mean we want the city to subsidize it, in any way. Instead, the plan is for the new homeowners to help other people, who need help paying their rent...
After 25 years in business in Harvard Square, I wrote Proposition 1-2-3 because it didn't seem fair to me that rich white couples can buy a house from me off Brattle Street, but a poor man can't buy his own apartment on Bristol Street. And a needy couple can't buy their apartment on Broadway...
...tenant is living in a condominium and he wants to buy it and the landlord wants to sell it, then I don't see any reason why he shouldn't be able to," Morgan says...
...Landlords have the right to put in whoever they want and they'll put in people who have the money to buy the apartment," says Amy J. Fripp. "I don't think most people can afford to buy their apartments...
...anniversary, authorities released onto the market large supplies of normally unobtainable imported bananas and oranges. "They continue to dangle these things in front of the populace as an incentive for political acquiescence," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "But it is clearly becoming harder and harder for them to buy off people in this...