Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Council also moved to investigate the rent jump, an appointed a three-man committee headed by Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, to see Dean Bender tomorrow about the rent problem...
With more sorrow than surprise, the undergraduate found in his mailbox Sunday an announcement of a 30 percent jump in room rents. The increase was far from unexpected. Although expenses at Harvard had risen much less than elsewhere, it became clear that the administration could not hold the line when other colleges, such as Columbia, were already announcing their second round of rent boosts...
...Senate Banking and Currency subcommittee, headed by Washington's Harry P. Cain, produced the pale shadow of a "rent-control" bill which would decontrol all rooming houses, and all cities with more than 1% vacancies, and authorize landlords and tenants to enter into leases at any figure agreeable to both. The full committee took one look and hustled the monstrosity out of sight until...
...compare a Lowell House converted single with an Eliot House converted double and conclude that Lowell dwellers are more comfortable is sheer folly. The very size of Lowell single rooms makes them inferior to even the smallest double; yet, because of the poor rent policy, the men in minute singles are paying rents comparable to others in more spacious doubles and triples...
...worse is the plight of the men who offered to redouble their rooms; their sacrificing spirit is costing them money as well as comfort. To take an example, the base rent of an average triple is $125 and of a double $175. Assuming both suite have four post-war occupants, and that $40 is added for each extra man, simple arithmetic shows the men in the doubled suite are paying five dollars more. In other words, it is more expensive for four men to live in a double suite than in a triple. Four hundred undergraduates are victims of this...