Word: landlordism
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...TALKING About Homes is a story of people banding together to save their homes in the face of malign indifference from their landlord, Columbia University. Like most true stories, it is not glamorous, and it does not have a happy ending. What author Lynne Schwartz offers instead is a perspective on urban housing problems which cuts through statistics and policy issues to get to the heart of the matter: people's lives...
Meanwhile, tenants not related to the university were left out on the street. With their homes and most of their possessions destroyed, they lived out of friends' apartments and hotels for months, waiting for some word from their institutional landlord about returning to their burned-out homes...
University Landlord...
...Marla Gibbs, the wisecracking maid on The Jeffersons, plays Mary Jenkins, a housewife who spends her days sitting on the front stoop of her inner-city apartment house, gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told...
There's more. Down at City Hall, Harvard has consistently used its muscle as Cambridge's largest landlord to oppose new zoning petitions designed to limit real estate development. Even when the community's best interest is at stake, Harvard has pursued its own agenda and systematically opposed height restrictions and preservation measures in Harvard Square. Last spring the University even thwarted a legislative effort to require commercial developers to build low income housing in the city...