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...flashiest suburbs-Copacabana-has 16,000 empty apartments, and through the city there are thousands of others. But there is also a housing shortage...
...reason for this strange state of affairs is that the empty Copacabana apartments, like many others in the great modern buildings that line Rio's beaches and stalk its hillsides (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), are owned by speculators who have no intention of becoming landlords. Tax laws are on the side of the speculator. The only real-estate tax an owner pays is 10% on rental value, established after an apartment is completed-and a stepladder in an entrance hall is evidence enough that the building is not yet done...
...your own advertisement. It must be specific as to your needs, for few apartments have iceboxes or telephones and getting a telephone takes from one to three years. Our ad brought us some leads. The first place we saw was on Avenida Atlantica, hanging right over Copacabana Beach. It was perfect-for midgets. The front room was so small you could light the landlady's cigaret (she sat across the room) without getting up. But size was the least drawback. With the apartment-at $225 a month-went the landlady's grandmother. Grandma would...
...colonial through 19th Century brick churches to curvaceous, glass-walled, ten-story skyscrapers-most of it in muscular bad taste. But the most characteristic structure in Medellin is a half-finished factory. Some 250 large factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping up the supply with a second huge hydro development. The well-paved streets contrast sharply with Bogota's slovenliness. Illiteracy in Antioquia is relatively...
...kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...