Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State Rep. John W. Sears '52, who ran third in the recent mayoralty primary, supported Whalen, claiming that "the federal government has become the landlord" in an increasingly feudal relationship. Sears scored the Republican party's "abdication of responsibility" for the urban crisis...
...some clothes strewn in the hallways. The apartment seemed to make the best of a bad thing. Collages, pop art, quotations from Hegal, and flower decorations relieved the monotony of beige paint. When the Commissioner of Health arrived to inspect it, he told a representative of the absentee landlord, "I wouldn't mind living here." Then he ordered the apartment be boarded up as "unfit for human habitation...
...City has revoked the rooming license of one landlord renting to hippies and has ticketed several others for health violations. The hippy newspaper--Avatar--is located in one of the buildings ticketed...
...program's success has resulted from its simplicity. Whenever Ekman has proof that a landlord will not accommodate Negroes, white servicemen are forbidden to lease or rent from the property owner. Since most landlords around military bases depend almost exclusively on military occupants, Ekman's decree leaves them with little choice between integration or bankruptcy. But, says Ekman, "first we try to use persuasion. I point out that a lot of the combat leaders are Negroes. If they have to live 20 or 30 miles from the base, it is uneconomic and very bad for morale...
Wooing & Warning. In Washington and Maryland, where 56% of rental housing was closed to Negro servicemen-despite fair housing laws-Ekman won by ceaselessly wooing and warning reluctant landlords. By letter, telephone or in person, he approached 1,700 owners or managers. He found that many of them were segregationists only for economic reasons. "What they would most like," argues Ekman, "is a law that would force them to open up." That way, of course, no landlord would be fearful of losing white renters to rival apartment owners. Without such a law, Ekman can only counterweight landlords' misgivings about...