Word: landlordism
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...Cambridge landlord Steven Kapsalis begins serving a 58-day sentence in the Billerica House of Correction. He is the first person to be jailed for a violation of the city's rent-control laws...
...fact, officers say interacting with students occupies a small portion of their duties. As the sworn police force for Cambridge's largest landlord--with jurisdiction ranging from the Radcliffe Quad to the Medical School's Boston campus--the Harvard force is expected to maintain the peace on all University property...
Proposition 1 says that if you have been a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment for two years, and if you wish to buy your home (and if your landlord wishes to sell it to you), you can do so. Under Proposition 1, you will not be required to buy. If you prefer, you can continue to rent forever at a low, rentcontrolled rent, just as you can now. But under Proposition 1, you will be given your choice...
PROPOSITION 1 unthaws the values that forebidding homeownership has kept frozen, providing immediate and substantial benefits to both current tenants and landlords. The tenants who do not wish to buy may still see a better-run building because their landlord, after having sold a few units, will no longer be as financially strapped as before, and because other units, now owner-occupied, will begin to reflect pride of ownership...
City and state laws already in existence severely punish landlords for harassing tenants out of a rentcontrolled apartment or for demanding anything at all besides the legal rent. It will remain illegal for any landlord even to ask a tenant to buy an apartment before renting...