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...many another big-city landlord, selling cooperative apartments looked like the best way yet discovered to 1) cash in on the housing shortage and 2) keep out of trouble with OPA. Even tenants who already had apartments were not safe from the new scheme. In fact, many a landlord, notably in New York and Chicago, has already unloaded a building, at a fat price, on his tenants. Their only protection is a year-old OPA regulation forbidding evictions to make way for co-ops unless tenants have bought up 80% of the apartments in the building. But this protection...
...same hour, the same thing happened elsewhere in the capital. Not all the raids went off as planned. At a third-floor apartment on Ottawa's Elgin Street, four Mounties almost failed to get their man. When they entered, they were thumped by the awakened tenant, who thought he was being robbed. The man they really wanted was asleep next door. There were raids elsewhere in Canada too-reportedly in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton. By week's end at least a score of men were "detained." One Canadian was reportedly picked up in London...
Hats & Station Wagons. Farmers were adding to their acreage, or buying for sons back from war; onetime tenant farmers were back from war jobs, their pockets bulging with cash for land; and "windshield" farmers from the city, who thought a farm was a hedge against inflation, were cruising over the land as never before...
Possible compromise: let the tenant rent the language, but charge the landlord for repairs...
...York City, an ex-major, his family and his medical supplies were evicted onto a Brooklyn sidewalk to make room for a new tenant. An ex-commander lives and practices in a furnished room while he looks for home and office space. An ex-lieutenant colonel was offered a nice set of rooms for $3,000 a year, if he would pay a bonus of $6,000 cash. A Greek doctor (one of the ten or so who serve New York's 60,000 Greeks) cannot practice because the only places he can find have no water and need...