Word: landlordism
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...will have to escrow not the contracted rent, but what the landlord wants," he says...
...several years prior to 1995, Guild and her partner were residents of The Piano Factory, a South End artists' commune which landlord Simeon Breuner had built from an abandoned piano factory...
...been in effect, Guild says the residents of The Piano Factory would have had to put up hundreds of thousands of dollars of rent at the increased rate in order to bring their landlord to court...
Boston resident Dottie G. Guild spent three years and four months in court suing her landlord for the right to affordable housing...
Tenants point out that a landlord could suddenly raise the rent should the tenant claim a code violation. Under SB 541, until the tenant funneled this heightened rent into the escrow account, the tenant's case would not be heard...