Word: landlordism
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Considered coldly, the Los Angeles housing situation was not much different from that of most other big U.S. cities. But Los Angeles was not considering it coldly. Last week virtually every landlord was certain his constitutional rights were being ground under the heel of a psychopathic bureaucracy, and countless tenants were convinced that they were soon to be 1) homeless, 2) victims of the vastest, most blackhearted swindle in the regrettable history of man. So the atmosphere was not unlike that around the lifeboats two minutes before the Titanic went down...
...Last Drop. The calamity howlers were sure OPA would be forced to eliminate price ceilings. But all prepared to fight until water in the last tap had been turned off. When Landlord Paul Sierson got OPA permission to evict 40 families from Villa Italia apartments, tenants began writing letters to the President, hired a lawyer, shrilly predicted that the place would be turned into a hotel if they were thrown out. The new rates, they said, knowingly, would be higher...
Meanwhile some Los Angeles tenants with apartments to sublet sought bribes more greedily than the fattest landlord of fiction-one asked and got a $750 bonus for subletting a $100 apartment for six months...
Olive Branch & All. In Omaha, Landlord Perfect Peace ejected Tenant John Dove for nonpayment of rent...
Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere to go," cried the baby-faced cinemactress (All That Money Can Buy-). The OP A gave itself a week to decide...