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...When I telephoned to check about a vacant apartment in another neighborhood, the landlord hung up on me as soon as he heard that I was Turkish and had three children." The grim living conditions in the ghettos foster not only broken homes but also a climate of violence-murders, knifings and muggings...
...council will ask the state legislature to grant an immediate stay of eviction for six months to all persons 62 years or older whose landlord has initiated eviction proceedings in order to convert their apartment into a condominium...
Most agree that Harvard is a good landlord but underlying that observation is the knowledge that the University is not in the real estate business as a hobby. Rather, by owning residential buildings. Harvard can practice what is commonly known as "land-banking." "There is no open land available in Cambridge, so we have to acquire buildings to get the land." Hill points out. The most recent acquisiton that may be used this way in the future is the property just behind the Graduate School of Design (GSD) on Summer Road. In the last year, Harvard bought all the apartment...
...landlord in New York were to cut services to his tenants, he would be hoisted on the nearest lamppost. A company which reduced workers' benefits would be crushed in whimpering impotence by the unions. Yet Harvard gives its students inadequate value for their money and expects compliance with the fixed price. The argument may seem impudent but the matter comes down to be essentially one of financial injustice. Mather has no squash courts; it is a long walk from the Square; its rooms are uncomfortably small; its charm is limited if not nonexistent. Now it serves no decent breakfast. Separate...
...Gore's portrayal manages to suggest the personal degradation that accompanies her submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect; if they cannot rise out of the yard, they must learn to live without abandoning hope entirely...