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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, first among students, then among young professionals, academics and workers seeking housing at any affordable price. In West Berlin, 75,000 people are looking for apartments; only 7,000 are available at inflated prices (up to $600 a month for a dilapidated two-bedroom unit in a rundown neighborhood...
...What is really criminal," says a 24year-old mechanic who lives with his wife and three children in a rundown building in Kreuzberg's Oranienstrasse, "is not that we are breaking the law, which we are, but that shelter is going unused." Another young, illegal Oranienstrasse resident recalls the travail of walking Berlin streets for a year looking for a place to live. Says she: "It was a nightmare. If you came across a place by chance, the owner would demand $5,000 in key money. Who can afford that...
...Silver Triangle in downtown Denver is a 20-square-block collection of parking lots, seedy hotels and aging, rundown stores. But a few months ago, the area started blossoming with bright green and white signs reading: ACQUIRED FOR CLIENTS. KNOWLTON REALTY...
...there did not cluster around him but came one by one to chat with Reagan, who talked of the rundown condition in which he had found the White House, of his adjustments to life in the mansion. It was unspectacular and disarming. The President left as quietly as he came...
...York City, the cold has continued almost unabated since a sub-zero Christmas Day, and January temperatures have averaged 19.7°. Some stingy and cold-hearted "coldlords" were giving up trying to provide heat in rundown tenements, and a few had let boilers slip into disrepair-or even intentionally damaged them. Said City Heat Inspector Theodore Klopsis: "There is plenty of heating oil, but some landlords are deliberately turning off their boilers...