Word: renting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge City Council narrowly rejected a proposal yesterday to provide subsidies low-income and elderly rent control tenants if Question 9--the proposal which would eliminate rent control in Massachusetts--is passed by voters next week...
...otherwise uneventful meeting was interrupted by two unusual events: the entrance of an anti-rent control protester dressed in a six-foot chicken costume, and a sharp criticism by Cambridge's mayor of an editorial in yesterday's Crimson...
...Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of an Alaska rental agent who refused to rent to unmarried couples on the grounds that they were being sinful. Over the solo dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, the court left intact an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that said the agent, Tom Swanner, violated state and local laws by refusing to rent to such couples. Swanner's appeal said these laws violated his First Amendment religious freedoms. Thomas argued that "there is surely no firm national policy against marital-status discrimination in housing decisions...
Supporters of Question 9, the ballot referendum which proposes elimination of rent control, have criticized a plan Healy issued earlier this month that would moderate the referendum's impact on rent-control tenants...
...about possible military-sponsored violence had been eased earlier in the week when former military chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his top deputy, Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, left Haiti for Panama. As part of a deal for his departure, the U.S. put down a $60,000 deposit to rent one of Cedras' luxury villas for at least a year. It refused to pick up the tab for two more residences, including a beach house...