Word: renting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to take care of the poor and the elderly. But why not give them rent vouchers, as we give food stamps to the poor? Why continue cumbersome bureaucratic regulations...
...same logic applies to rent control in Cambridge. About 40 percent of those in rent-controlled apartments can pay higher rents. Since the property values are lower than market rents, the city collects less in taxes...
...first year, the plan will cost the city $200,000 more than simply continuing to rent the building, Healy said. In five years the cost would be equal, and from then on the city would save money...
Some tenants pay rent to the city, while those who do not pay provide services free of charge to the community, O'Brien added...
...rewards of marriage in today's society are more than merely emotional. Among the tangible benefits available to husbands and wives are coverage under their spouses' health and pension plans, rights of inheritance and community property, the joys of joint tax returns, and claims to each other's rent- controlled apartments...