Word: landlordism
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...save as many drops as possible, the city began enforcing stringent−and widely ignored−restrictions on the use of central air conditioning in offices and apartments. Though 110 inspectors fanned out to enforce the curb, the city issued a summons to only one offender−the landlord of the local FBI office. The Water Department nabbed another kind of offender: the Parks Department, which was caught wet-handed sprinkling golf greens in dead of night...
...answers they got generally concerned small and immediate problems: "The landlord won't fix the stairs;" "We should have a stop sign on the corner." When the same problem occurred several times within one block, the workers usually convinced a few neighbors to present a joint petition to their landlord or to city officials. Often they were successful; John M. Mendeloff '67 proudly tells visitors, "That's our sign," as he passes one stop sign in the nine-block triangle in which the Center operates...
Residents of City public housing projects yesterday angrily confronted their landlord, the Cambridge Housing Authority. After listening to both sides for nearly three hours, the City Council asked the Authority to establish "tenant councils" in Cambridge's 11 public projects and to correct specific complaints voiced at the hearing...
...suit was filed in Sacramento against Crawford Miller, an insurance investigator and landlord who seeks to evict Clifton Hill and his family from their $86-a-month apartment solely because he wants "to rent said premises to members of the Caucasian race." Defendant Miller says the new amendment gives him that right. Plaintiff Hill emphatically disagrees, citing the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment...
...court refused to support Landlord Miller, said Judge Gallagher, it would violate Miller's private property rights under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. As for the new state amendment, Gallagher said it simply resumes California's former "neutrality in these matters" and restores to private property owners "an absolute freedom of choice in the disposition of their private property...