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...diplomats in Moscow, there is a ubiquitous Big Brother: the Administration for Services to the Diplomatic Corps (UPDK). A foreign service officer wants an apartment? The UPDK is the landlord. A junket to Leningrad? UPDK is the indifferent travel agency. The bureau also supplies nearly 100 workers to the U.S. embassy. Some of them, it is assumed, are Soviet intelligence agents...
...that several other neighborhoods around the city are on the verge of their own little real estate booms, arson is again pushing the old residents out. Either landlord are engaging in blatant arson-for profit or they're cutting maintenance to their buildings, which pressures tenants to abandon the apartments. After that, vandals may torch the building, or scavengers, called "junkies" in the arson business, strip the building for pipes or scrap metal and burn what's left to cover up the robbery. There are between 1200 and 1400 vacant buildings in Boston; once they are disposed of--as about...
...Harvard building. AS part of the settlement, the tenants were guaranteed a lease for four years and notification before they signed a lease of any capital improvements that would increase the monthly rent.Kuehn said the stipulation could not be guaranteed despite its presencein the contract if a landlord other than Harvard was involved...
Harvard is the largest single landlord in Cambridge. Most of the University's housing stock is concentrated in prime buildings surroundingthe Square Jim Tarry, another Tenant, said the group is willing toaccept an apartment in a non-Harvard owned building, but the few shown were a drastic departure from their current standard of living...
When he asked Bok about Harvard's record as the city's largest landlord. Sullivan said Bok "reported that that was Harvard's business and not mine...