Word: landlordism
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...many another big-city landlord, selling cooperative apartments looked like the best way yet discovered to 1) cash in on the housing shortage and 2) keep out of trouble with OPA. Even tenants who already had apartments were not safe from the new scheme. In fact, many a landlord, notably in New York and Chicago, has already unloaded a building, at a fat price, on his tenants. Their only protection is a year-old OPA regulation forbidding evictions to make way for co-ops unless tenants have bought up 80% of the apartments in the building. But this protection...
...Boot. In Philadelphia, Veteran Ignatius Miedzwiecki complained that Landlord Joseph Galzarano was holding, as security for unpaid $28 rent, his artificial foot...
Possible compromise: let the tenant rent the language, but charge the landlord for repairs...
Myris Chaney, who caused a brief flurry of headlines in 1942 when she was taken up as a dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an apartment building with her husband and moving in. Chaney & husband said they charged tenants the same old rent. OPA claimed an overcharge and sued for triple damages...
Unbearable Tenant. In Clinton, Tenn., a landlord asked OPA for permission to evict a 300-lb. tenant before she caved in his new porch...