Word: landlordism
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...State House protest, organized by the State Rent Control Task Force, a loose coalition of Massachusetts tenant associations, was aimed at a proposal that would allow a landlord to raise his rents if the rent control board does not act upon his petition for an increase within 90 days...
...foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the part. In contrast, Tony Horowitz as Norman and Diane Sherlock as Shelley are marvelously convincing caricatures. Ethan Dmitrovsky plays Willis the landlord Archie Bunker-style; his dream monologue is the most haunting moment of the play...
Louis F. Solano '24 decided to run for city council when his landlord upped his rent three times in six weeks...
Independent councilors have traditionally opposed rent control because, in Clinton's words, it is 'poorly administered" and "has turned landlord and tenant into combatants." Russell and other Independents also accuse the Cambridge Rent Control Board of being "too much pro-tenant...
...peasant will be better off if the government does not know who he is. These officials are probably like the good-hearted soul who gave money every morning to the pathetic-looking professional beggars, only to discover later that one of his objects of charity was his landlord (this actually happened...