Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house in five rents for less than $25 a month, which, according to the Corcoran Report, "provides a cold-water, stove-heated flat in a substandard pre-1900 building which the landlord cannot afford to maintain." More than one house in three lacks central heating. One house in four is classified as "dilapidated" by the city. 16,000 of the 33,000 Cambridge homes are either threatened by, or engulfed in, blight...
...David Clark, secretary for the registry, collects data on each landlord who is reported discriminatory. "When we have enough information, we begin working with the discriminators," Mrs. Clark explained. Mrs. Catherine T. Johnson, executive director of the Civic Unity group, helps Mrs. Clark with difficult cases...
...attempts to convince the landlord to accept foreign and non-white students fail, he is usually taken off the list. Mrs. Clark added, however, that the lack of available apartments precludes removing many listings of this type...
...analysis will reveal whether a landlord has rented to Jewish, foreign, non-white, Asian, or African students. Hunt declared that the housing office "will do anything it can to discourage discrimination of any kind," but he said bias would not result in automatic refusals to list a room...
...called so often to Wash ington-as special assistant to President Truman on foreign aid, director of the Psychological Strategy Board, chairman of the board that judged the Oppenheimer case, and now as Assistant Secretary of Defense-that for much of the time he was an absentee landlord. Too few of his colleagues got to know him well, and Gray himself realized the awkwardness of his position. Last week his trustees regretfully accepted his decision to leave for full-time duty with the Government...