Word: landlordly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went into one old woman's apartment that had an inch-wide crack running the width of the ceiling. I tried to tell her that with rent control, she could force the landlord to abide by the housing code. She could make him fix the crack...
This can mean showing a tenant that he can fight his landlord's attempts to evict him. Or it can mean telling a welfare recipient that a social worker has no right to search his home. A great deal of talk is often required simply to uncover the problems, since CLAO clients frequently do not realize their legal rights...
...Sometimes you uncover a problem that wasn't there before. That's where the clients come in with one problem and have another problem solved that was on their mind but they hadn't realized," he explained. "You know, somebody comes in who has been a landlord-tenant problem. You find that she also has a welfare problem and then you help her out on your own initiative...
CLAO lawyers have handled landlord-tenant disputes, potentially the biggest source of conflict, against the Hunneman Co., Harvard's realtor. Last summer CLAO defended the man accused of stealing the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library...
...houses are left empty partly because the role of slum landlord has become less and less profitable. New York City landlords cite the abandoned buildings as proof of a financial squeeze, and reason enough for the city to repeal its rent-control law, which has frozen rents at below-market levels since...