Word: landlordism
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...total dollar amount received by the landlord increased, on the average, by 46.7 per cent, Nesson said...
...Freire found that the central problem underlying each of these individual problems is learning just what that reality is and where that reality is coming from. Is the reality of insufficient food the reality of an act of God of the person's own laziness, or of an exploitative landlord? This is the process of conscientizacan--gaining an awareness of the social, political, and economic dialectical relationships that are reality-defining. (Friere perceives all problems as occurring in dialectical pairs.) An absolutely fundamental dialectic is that of oppressor--oppressed, and here the educational task for both teachers and students...
Independent William H. Walsh, who has represented many Cambridge landlords in rent control cases, will get the landlord vote and support from others who as Walsh puts it, "want to see radical elements out of Harvard Square...
...When do I get my $5,000 reward?" a Los Angeles woman asked the IRS after she ratted on her rent-raising landlord. Staffers informed her that the sum was a fine for violators, not a reward for informers...
...Beverly Hills woman, who pleaded that she was strapped for cash, asked to have a $25-a-month rent increase deferred. The IRS concurred, and her landlord was instructed to hold the rent on her two-bedroom apartment down to the old level...