Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...years, Harvard has been the city's biggest landlord. This year it grew even bigger. A year ago, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) unveiled plans to build a five-story "limited convenience" hotel on property across from the Harvard Union. In the fall, the University purchased the Quality Motor Inn and the Bence Pharmacy building on Mass. Ave. And in March, Harvard purchased from the St. Paul's Rectory the largest undeveloped plot in the Square...
...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 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...