Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clements said however, that Castro's urban reforms, which took the form of tax and rent changes as well as housing developments, were aimed more at destroying Cuba's middle class than at providing new housing for the lower class people...
Concrete Assets. Monthly rents range from $150 (for one room) to $1,000 (for a seven-room penthouse), with a year's rent payable in advance. Normally, such steep prices would indicate a seller's market, but in the Lebanese capital, the laws of supply and demand are suspended. Perhaps as many as 35,000 apartments are vacant, yet new buildings keep rising amid what may be the most artificial real estate boom since the days of Florida's wild land speculation...
...federal loans, will be designed for oldsters over 62 whose incomes are as low as $1,800 a year. In Lorain County. Ohio, for example, the church will set up a $4,500,000 settlement for 500 people. The plans call for cottages and high-rise apartments that will rent from $60 to $90 a month. A "core unit" near the center of the housing clusters will provide inexpensive health services, community headquarters and living units for those who are disabled. Residents will rent their quarters, will not have to sign life-tenancy agreements, pay admission charges or provide guarantees...
Readymade for the status-seeking Washington hostess who is worried lest her cocktail party fall flat: the You-Rent-a-Cocktail Party Crowd. Invented by Writer C.D.B. Bryan for the funny crew of a funny supper-club routine at the Captain's Table in Georgetown, the device is described thus...
...most ambitious project under construction is the $36 million Marina City, which is rising into the sky alongside the Chicago River. Built around two eyecatching, 65-story cylinders, the multipurpose development will have 896 medium-rent apartments, plus a 16-story office building, a 1,700-seat theater, a 1,000-car garage, boat dock, swimming pool, ice rink and even a sculpture garden...