Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs which provide a guaranteed, and reasonable, rate of return. We will expect, and require, of any developer who needs the cooperation of the City in building Federally supported housing, that a substantial number of the units to be built be made available to low income families through either rent supplements or leasing to the Housing Auhtority. To make that possible, cost of building in the first place must be limited, since there are cost constraints in both subsidy programs. Builders of housing which will rent at full market levels must understand, while the City recognizes their right to produce...
This brings me to the question of rent control, which has been so much before this City Council in recent weeks. I'm sure there is no need to say again how aware my office is of the seriousness of this problem of unreasonable increases in rent...
...Bronx apartment building. The landlord: James Meredith, 36, the prominent civil rights figure who was the first known Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi. The tenants of the building testified that Meredith had cut off vital services in an effort to force them to agree to rent hikes in their rent-controlled apartments. A Bronx criminal-court judge found Meredith guilty on two counts; sentencing date is July 25, when Meredith faces a possible $250 fine and 15 days in jail on each charge. Said he: "I was convicted before, in Mississippi, for registering to vote. This seems...
Commando Tactics. Last week visitors were filling up the student-owned "summer hotels" and patronizing their restaurants. In Helsinki, converted dormitories provide 1,000 modern rooms for low-budget tourists, adding 70% to the city's available hotel space. Another 1,000 rooms are for rent in the provinces; single rooms go from...
...Lazorcaks, inflation is the killer of the dream. One reason, Lazorcak says, is rising rent-up $15 a month last year. His wife stretches the dollar by growing her own fruits and vegetables in a garden. The couple's last night out was on their sixth anniversary-and it cost them a prohibitive $40. Lazorcak, a high-school graduate, thinks only vaguely about going to college some day to study architecture. He has abandoned hopes of opening additional pizza shops because, unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen...