Word: landlordism
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Those who come later pay higher rents because of the smaller housing stock available. In effect, there is an inter-temporal transfer of wealth. The landlord, not the government, becomes the source of the subsidy, so he or she has less incentive to increase the housing stock...
Section 1. Any tenant who has occupied a controlled rental unit for a period of at least two years shall be entitled to purchase and occupy his or her unit as a condominium unit owner, if tenant and landlord both so agree...
Paul G. Ahern, a self-described small landlord said he voted for the proposition because "I think price control has been in the city too long, and there's a bunch of liberals running it." He added that under the system, he does not get enough money to to fix up his property. "It's terrible," he said...
...against 1-2-3 and my father is for it, and it provides for some interesting family discussions," said Aimee F. Hendrigan '93, a city resident whose father is a landlord in North Cambridge...
...tenant is living in a condominium and he wants to buy it and the landlord wants to sell it, then I don't see any reason why he shouldn't be able to," Morgan says...