Word: condominium
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...legislation is especially aimed at protecting Cambridge's elderly, who Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci termed "the real victims of this scheme" to convert rental units into condominiums. Graham said the number of elderly seeking housing in Cambridge has doubled in recent years, largely because of the condominium conversions...
Harvard received some of the blame for the increase in condominium conversions. "There's no doubt that the problem has been compounded by Harvard University expansion and subsidy programs, which will both reduce the number of liveable, affordable homes," David Sullivan, a Cambridge resident and lawyer for the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, told the council...
...least that is what happened in California to Stephen and Lois Wolfson after they had a child last year. Forced to leave their $425-a-month apartment in Los Angeles' Marina del Rey, they fought the eviction in municipal court and lost. Now they live in a condominium at roughly twice the cost of their old apartment, and are appealing the case under California civil rights law. If they win, a lot of ADULTS ONLY signs will come down, at least in California: an estimated 60% of Los Angeles apartments do not rent to children, a figure that climbs...
...mother-in-law told him before her death in 1977 to take care of the money and even treat it as his own. He complied, putting $47,000 in his bank account and using some $30,000 of it as part of the down payment on his Watergate condominium...
...Wolfsons divide their time among their Clermont Farm near Saratoga Springs, New York, a house on Long Island, a condominium in Bal Harbour, Fla., and wherever their horses are running. They are becoming familiar to the racing public as a strikingly handsome couple who like to hold hands and gaze lovingly at each other. Louis keeps his weight down by eating cottage-cheese-and-peaches lunches and doing 15 minutes of calisthenics a day. Patrice has given up her painting under the pressures of racing and of managing the various Wolfson households. "I'm busy being a housewife...