Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simple Rule. In the California case, Security Insurance Co. of New Haven had refused to settle the claim of a tenant who had fallen through a faulty wooden staircase. The victim later developed a severe psychosis. The landlady, who had to pay up as a result of the insurance company's refusal, was forced to sell off her assets. She became indigent, eventually lost her health and attempted suicide. She sued Security, and the California Supreme Court finally upheld an award that covered the excess she had had to pay over the insurance limit, plus damages for the mental...
Winfred G. Knopf, assistant dean of the Business School, said that the principal tenant would be the Harvard Business Review. The Review's editorial offices are currently in Gallatin House at the Business School...
...that the supplements program is too costly because of its 40-years contract authority. A $5 million contract authorization, for example, really amounts to $5 million for 40 years, or a total of $200 million. The actual Government expenditure, however, would be less because its payments cease when the tenant can pay the full rent with 25 per cnt of his income...
...Supplements plan, by placing subsidized tenants in standard housing with non-subsidized higher-income families, gives the lower-income occupant an incentive to increase his income. In public housing, however, a tenant has to give up his dwelling when his income exceeds the eligibility level. When the supplement tenant's income rises above the local eligibility limits, he no longer receives the supplement but may remain in the project and pay the full rent. And the fact that private enterprise sponsors the supplements projects is an advantage. Then, private groups, rather than the government, pay for construction and administration...
Apartment security was easily solved in most dwellings by impromptu tenants' committees, which set up guard-duty rosters, or else imposed a levy of up to $10 a tenant to hire moonlighting cops as part-time guards. Garbage was another matter. One East Side matron, accustomed to having the trash picked up twice daily from her back door, shrilled: "But where do I take it?" Many took it to their front sidewalks, but since sanitation-department drivers-good unionists all-refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West...