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With Schedule I in hand, a tenant began by classifying his apartment. A three-room fifth-floor apartment in a fairly decent neighborhood would be rated as 3-a. With louder street noises, darker corridors and no stair carpeting, it dropped into 3-b. He then classified his rooms: "habitable" (nine square meters or more), "secondary" (at least seven square meters), and "annexes" (baths, toilets, closets). By multiplying this space by coefficients ranging from .6 to 1.0, depending on the classification of his rooms, he arrived at his total area of "useful floor space...
Clean Decision. In Brooklyn, Magistrate Frances W. Lehrich, pointing out that "human rights come before property rights," ruled that a landlord should not limit the number of baths a tenant may take...
...tenants, said Kirkeby, will be paying only $6,350,000 for a property which he insists could not be duplicated now for less than $14 million. And 32% of what the tenant pays in maintenance charges can be deducted for tax purposes-which Kirkeby feels "means something to tenants like, we will have." More than half the present Hampshire House apartments have already been sold, said he, and the plan will go into effect...
Package Deal. In Chicago, Landlord John Bardo had a complaint to make in court: his tenant, Mrs. Pecia Stranc, refused to pay rent unless he married...
...logical man for such support. Although he has never before run for office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...