Word: landlordism
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...Much of the increase in Cambridge rents over the past ten years is due to the increased housing demand from students and adults just over student age. Many of these people, who come to live in Cambridge for short periods, can afford to pay higher rents, and so the landlord demands more, displacing long-time residents of Cambridge...
Watertown landlord Herbert Brazao finally succeeded yesterday morning in evicting the leading member of the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC), William Cunningham, and his three children from their Cambridge apartment...
Herbert Brazao, a Watentown landlord, attempted to evict William Cunningham, active in the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC), from his Cambridge apartment...
...landlord wants me out," Cunningham said. "There are personal reasons now, but the original issue arose because he wants to be able to raise the rents every year and won't renew my lease...
...Since the Middle Ages, the common law has entitled landlords to leave most repairs to tenants. But the growth of apartment living in the U.S. has raised sharp questions about landlords who blithely ignore faulty heating, lighting and plumbing. In that spirit, a decision written by Judge J. Skelly Wright for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia empowered tenants to withhold rent if the landlord fails to keep the premises in decent condition. Now all D.C. landlords are accountable and no tenant can be evicted for using his rent as a weapon to enforce his right...