Word: landlordism
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When Harvard buys up apartment space in the area local residents complain says Sally Zeckhauser president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE). But when Cambridge's largest landlord gets out of the market as it is doing now local residents complain, she adds...
...other tenants in the three family building moved out in October and Harvard has plans to sell hopefully to a faculty member. When it does it the new owner moves in the remaining tenants will no longer benefit from Cambridge's strict control of rents and landlord relations. Nagin says his rent could climb to as much $900 in which case he would be forced to look for another of the very few available affordable apartments in the area...
Most of the nation's 16 million welfare recipients are permit ted to spend their checks as they choose. The suggested change would mean that welfare tenants who failed to pay their rent for two months would be adjudged to have mismanaged their money. At this point, a landlord could ask state welfare officials to divert part of the A.F.D.C. for delinquent rent within the next 30 days. One critic of the proposed rule, Henry Freedman, director of the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law, said that those on welfare should be permitted to spend their money...
Friends of Svetlana's expressed surprise and concern at her redefection. She had moved from Princeton, N.J., to Cambridge, England, two years ago, had placed Olga in a boarding school and bought an apartment in the university town. Said her former Cambridge landlord, Professor Donald Denman: "I cannot believe she has asked for Russian citizenship or is requiring her daughter to give up her American citizenship." Olga, a bright and popular girl who speaks no Russian, was unhappy in Britain. "She was pining for the U.S.," said Denman. "I don't know how she will manage in Russia...
...results will fall into the wrong hands. Some are recommending a boycott of the test unless confidentiality can be legally guaranteed. "Besides being clinically useless, this test is identifying," says Dr. Stephen Caiazza, president of New York Physicians for Human Rights. "It tells your employer, your insurance company or landlord that you are gay or a drug abuser...