Rent discounts popping up as apartment vacancies climb (Tucson
Citizen)
The economic downturn and a state law against hiring illegal
immigrants have dramatically increased the number of vacant apartments in
Tucson.
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Chilling Audiotapes Released 4 Years After Fatal Fire (NBC New
York)
Two New York City firefighters died as a result of a landlord's greed
and his desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided
apartments, prosecutors said Monday.
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Prosecutor: Firefighters from LI walked into 'death trap'
(Newsday)
Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05
death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments
from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters
in a January 2005 blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said
Monday in opening arguments of the manslaughter trial of two tenants and
the landlord. ...
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Prosecutor: 'Death trap' was set for bravest (Newsday)
Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05
death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments
from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters
in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said Monday.
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1.5m families face housing rent hike (Manila Standard Today)
A total of 1,542,538 families living in rented houses face the bleak
prospect of being burdened by higher lease payment if the Rent Control Law
will not be extended after it expired last Dec. 3l.
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