Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swimming club, which is called Little Hunting Park Inc. And in 1965, when he rented his house to Theodore R. Freeman Jr., a Negro economist at the Agriculture Department, Sullivan assumed that Freeman's lease entitled him to join the club. Instead, the club barred the Negro tenant. When Sullivan protested, the club barred him too. Sullivan was angry enough to join Freeman in fighting the case up to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. They lost: the judges upheld a lower-court ruling that Little Hunting Park was a private club, and was thus free to restrict...
Other demonstrators said that a tenant had complained to Hunneman about some missing planks in her back porch. Several days later, her porch and eight other porches were ripped off the building by repair...
...woman tenant claimed that "this looks like a different place altogether. You kids are just great...
...finding reasonably priced housing has contributed to the feeling of frustration in the nation. The Nixon Administration recognizes that the housing problem is fanning popular discontent about inflation. Moreover, rising pressures in the housing market may well aggravate tension in the ghettos. Rent strikes, led by predominantly Negro tenant unions, have occurred recently in St. Louis, Los Angeles and other cities. The strikers demand better living conditions, lower rents-or both. In Milwaukee, 14 couples and their 70 children not long ago took up unauthorized residence in an abandoned Army disciplinary barracks. The squatters have dubbed the place "Fort Homeless...
...current plans hold true, about 20 to 30 per cent of the units will be placed under Federal leased housing and rent supplement programs, which subsidize rents so that a low-income tenant pays only about 20 or 25 per cent of his income for rent...