Word: low-rent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Section 220 of the Federal Housing Act of 1954 authorizes the FHA Commissioner to insure mortgages of "high risk" projects if their goal is the elimination of slum areas. The Committee Report accompanying the law implied that these mortgaged projects should provide low-rent housing...
...building expenses, and begin to collect interest as soon as ground is broken for a project. The subcommittee should not miss the chance to force these reforms upon the FHA. Nor should the Senators neglect to hold the agency to the spirit of the law by financing only low-rent housing that can have a legitimate effect on urban slums...
...cafes, off-beat clothing stores, book stores, art supply stores, and offices for student organizations presently cramped in tiny quarters in a University building on Dunster Street. Even groups like the Advocate who presently own their own quarters but have difficulty in keeping them up, might be interested in low-rent offices on the Library site...
...ultimately, the Library's greatest impact may prove to be on the daily life of Harvard Square. Though this plan have not yet been made public, architect I.M. Pei has said that he is considering placing University buildings, low-rent offices for student organizations, and stores run any local merchants on the site...
...Low-Rent Imprimatur. The Interstate Commerce Commission, well aware of the perennial boxcar shortages, has long fought the low-rental rules laid down by the Association of American Railroads' imprimatur. Indeed, a bill giving the ICC greater rate-setting leeway last year passed the Senate, now is stalled in the House. Still undaunted, the ICC ordered that all railroads receiving boxcars from the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific promptly unload them and return them to their corporate owners within 24 hours. If the receiving rail lines ignore this order, the ICC will probably have to go into...