Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elevators rarely work. Despite this winter's bone-chilling temperatures, the project's 4,000 residents have had heat only intermittently. Several days before Christmas, one shivering tenant accidentally set her apartment on fire with an electric space heater. She had to wait 31½ weeks for the public housing authority to make repairs. She still is without regular heat. More than a decade ago, dynamite and wrecking balls claimed St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe, the nation's high-rise symbol of all that was wrong with public housing...
...need for improved programs for funding and managing low-income housing is critical, but until they are developed, existing projects will need to be maintained. HUD estimates it would take $67 billion to replace them. Without public housing or low-cost alternatives, says Carrie Copeland, president of Capitol Homes Tenant Association in Atlanta, "there's nowhere else...
What the sale will mean for the other building tenant. The Coop, is equally uncertain, as the University has yet to finalize its plans for the property...
...tenant in Boston refuses to pay his rent until his landlord rectifies the apartment's cockroach problem. But instead of getting his room fumigated, he receives an eviction notice...
...addition to tenant problems, the computer system can deal with other hassles. "There are lots of old folks who have problems with their Social Security checks and get embroiled in very complex legal cases. And they simply don't have the money to sponsor a law suit," says John Getsinger, project director of the school's information technology project, explaining that the program will be specifically designed to help handle these types of cases...