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...help out his friends, including the caricaturist Daumier, who -impoverished and nearly blind-was about to be evicted from his cottage. Corot bought another cottage for Daumier and sent along a tongue-in-cheek explanation: "It is not for you I do this; it is merely to annoy your landlord...
...average day he represented no fewer than 25 clients, spending five hours a day in the courts of Oyer and Terminer, three more in the police courts at night. Often he got to bed at 4 a.m. and was up at 6. Once, when his landlord evicted him for nonpayment of rent, Chippy blithely set up business in the waiting room of Penn Station, where he consulted with clients in the privacy of two facing phone booths...
...landlord was restless about the rent; the grocer had already refused further credit; and for the Argentine couple, who had come with their young son to live in Paris, things were getting desperate. Then one day in 1958, while the parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...
Most big cities have failed to redevelop their biggest land resource: slums. Slums are undertaxed, while good new apartments are overtaxed. A slum landlord has so little incentive to improve his property that often only the Federal Government can afford to build new middle-income housing on slum sites. If slum areas were taxed on the basis of the actual high value of the land in the city's heart rather than on the basis of the ramshackle buildings on it, landlords would be forced to build new higher-rent apartments...
Eminent Domain. In Pesqueira, Brazil, Landlord Joao Francisco da Silva was locked up for nonpayment of property taxes on the city jailhouse, which he owns...