Word: landlordism
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...answer this for itself-both as to my aspirations and my fate should I have the privilege of occupying the White House. I daresay, should anyone take this phenomenon to heart, anyone, that is, who aspires to change his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that most probably the landlord would be left from 1960-64 with a 'For Rent' sign hanging on the gatehouse door. Sincerely, John F. Kennedy." Last week New York Representative Seymour Halpern, who had acquired the letter from an autograph dealer, donated it to Manhattan's new Library of Presidential Papers...
Four off-campus Harvard students and their landlord fought before the Cambridge Board of Appeals yesterday to keep their Greenough St.house--and a fifth, non-Harvard roommate...
...involve rehabilitation--paid for by the residents themselves. For the first time, government-insured, low-interest bank loans may be made available in a ghetto area. One idea is to aid groups in setting up non-profit corporations to buy apartment houses; instead of paying rent to a landlord, a resident would pay a pro-rated share of the mortgage (plus a charge for maintenance services) and would wind up own apartment. The corporation could also seek money for rehabilitation, and split the payments on the loan among residents. Planners figure that the cost to residents would be roughly...
...citizens still solid enough to have gardens that needed care could have them tended for $1 a week." Not that Bendiner's family had any of those luxuries. Their only fun was buying on the installment plan. The day the Bendiners received a dispossess notice from their Manhattan landlord was also the day they received a regulation-size pool table ordered for the apartment on credit...
...date, about half of CLAO's 436 cases have dealt with divorces, non-support cases, and other problems of "family law." Landlord-tenant and consumer problems together make up another quarter. Eleven per cent have been criminal, mostly juvenile and misdemeanor cases...