Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't she report landlord Zucker's statement that he spent two years negotiating with his tenants before applying to Rent Control for an increase, that he offered his tenants alternative low-rent housing and moving costs, that he spent $800,000 in repairs and renovations and has waited six years without one penny of this money reflected in his rents, and that his tenants have lived four years in "Cadillac" apartments paying "Chevrolet" rents...
...City's Council has proposed taxing Rent Control tenants and putting the money in the City's coffers. The fattened City bureaucracy will decide how to spend the landlord's rent. Shall we extend this mentality to other groups? Some individuals of one race or ethnic group may spend too much money on drink, drugs, and junk food. Therefore, the City should take the money of all members of that race or ethnic group and spend it for them. For their own good, of course...
...liberty of bank robbers and murderers is far better protected than my liberty as a small Cambridge landlord. The government must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a robber indeed committed the murder. Not so with landlords. (The Big Lie again.) Landlords are insatiably greedy despots...
...landlord. Therefore I am an insatiably greed despot. Without a single shred of direct evidence that I personally am not competent to manage my property, the city is depriving me of my right to manage my property and enjoy the fruits of my labor and investment...
Rent control may be legal. Anti-landlord bigots may even find it reasonable. But it's not right, not equitable, not fair, not just! Lenore M. Schloming...