Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definite rent has been decided upon as yet, but officials assured that they would be tailored to the veterans' in- comes to as great an extent as possible. The University must pay for the preparation of the site, supplying utilities, maintenance, and miscellaneous costs; since the venture must pay for itself, rents must be high enough to cover these expenses. The entire project will be handled through the Housing Office...
...dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an apartment building with her husband and moving in. Chaney & husband said they charged tenants the same old rent. OPA claimed an overcharge and sued for triple damages...
First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...
CPAdministrator John D. Small listed ten critical building materials* which will be affected by the priorities program. Special "HH" priorities will be issued by Federal Housing Administration field offices to veterans who want to build houses, or to professional builders, providing that they will hold their houses for rent or sale to veterans for 30 days after they are built. To get priorities, applicants will have to prove to FHA that they will be ready to start construction within 60 days...
Priority houses will have to sell for $10,000 or less, including the land, or rent for $80 a month or less. And any veteran, or private builder, who sells his house must abide by a set schedule of prices. Roughly half of the available supply of most of the critical materials listed will be set aside for holders of priorities...