Word: landlordism
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...December, the owners of both Boylston St. stores received a 50-day eviction notice from their landlord, Richard Dow of Cambridge Securities...
...York, for example, the standard gives a landlord 81/2 per cent on fair market value and allows a two per, cent deduction for depreciation as an expense. This is lower than even the lowest limit of the Cronin standard...
...Landlord opposition to the law centered on the constitutionality suit up until Monday, and occasional statements at City Council meetings by Carl F. Barron, chairman of the Cambridge Property Owners' Association. However, as tenant politicking has grown more confrontation-oriented, spearheaded by the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee, so has the tone of landlord lobbying. Thursday night William H. Walsh, speaking for the newly formed Cambridge Taxpayers' Association, threatened a taxpayer strike unless Cronin's guidelines are adhered to. Although the theories are completely opposed, the landlord threat begins to sound like tenant action earlier this year in which tenants spontaneously...
...effects will probably be quite different, however. Tenants risked eviction proceedings in their action Y something the landlord will not face...
Cronin sat calmly and folded his hands while Robert Pearlman, another spokesman for the C. T. O. C. hollered "Now you're going to listen to me. This is just like everything else you've tried to do with this law. The government is giving protection to the landlord's profitability and speculation, not relief for the oppressed tenants...