Word: landlordism
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...result, Harvard puts its graduate student population in a no-win situation. While most would like nothing more than to plow ahead with the dissertation, they instead wind up--thanks to that angry landlord, the growling belly, and rising loan debts--leading two sections and a sophomore tutorial, grading two arm-fulls of midterms, and receiving midnight phone calls from confused and worried students. Why not the best...
...middle class is a Hasidic landlord who bugs his rent-controlled apartments in the hope that he can learn of a violation that will enable him to evict low-paying tenants. Peter Fallow, the boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother...
What else would you call a policy that interferes with the right of landlords to determine their rents for no socially justifiable reason? Plain and simple using rent control to aid the wealthy at the expense of property owners unfairly scapegoat the unpopular landlord of American myth...
Zeckhauser's accomplishments are undisputed. Beginning in 1979, she built up HRE from a disorganized collection of apartments worth about $1 million into the city's largest landlord with a budget of $40 million...
...average student pays almost $18,000 a year to have his right to accommodate guests restricted without having a say in the decision. Does Harvard have any real right to prevent students from housing guests in rooms rented for $300 a month? Would the Masters like it if the landlord of an apartment they rented stood outside their door and refused to let them bring in more than one guest...