Word: slumlords
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...with an eye to razing it, creating a site for construction of new University facilities. Such property is usually permitted to run down, because there's no sense in paying steep maintenance costs if the building will eventually be torn down. Landbanking can potentially turn an owner into a slumlord; the building is only secondary to the property value...
...street names in Morrison's novel are invented in response to white officialdom, the characters, who are all black, spend their lives reacting in one way or another to persistent discrimination. Macon Dead, a successful black slumlord, will always be warped, both because he must live with a name given his father by a drunken Union soldier who filled out the form wrong, and because he will not be any more accepted by the white banks than he will be by his black tenants. His wife, the doctor's daughter, will never be part of the city's black community...
...least they could have done was give us 30 days like any decent slumlord would," Levin said...
...School's Office for Urban Affairs. Beckwith, head of the team that had isolated a single gene the month before, said at the time, "I'm here because I believe that Harvard is trying to force people out of their homes, using the worst tactics of a slumlord." Miller conceded that Harvard did "have plans" for the land in the neighborhood, and admitted that maintenance of the Harvard-owned buildings had been "lousy...
...youth culture. Encountered, though, is not quite the word. On the evidence of The Malcontents, C.P. Snow seems to have heard about youth from a distance and caught only a faint echo. Bomb throwers? Draft dodgers? Snow's radical cell of students is exercised about a racist slumlord who happens to be an influential Tory M.P.; they are plotting to subject him to what, for the English, still seems to be the worst of fates: public exposure...