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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Landlords"”.
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The California energy crisis and cogeneration investment opportunities for office landlords
… that can provide electricity to office landlords and tenants that is less costly and more reliable than that provided by the utilities. There are several ways that office cogeneration systems can ease the pressure on California's electric generation and transmission infrastructure. …
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Retrofitting Affordable Multifamily Housing: A Survey of Landlords in Cincinnati, Ohio
… pilot program that provided grants to landlords of affordable multifamily housing to help implement energy efficiency retrofits. In partnership with the City of Cincinnati Office of Environment & Sustainability, I assess results from the pilot program, develop and analyze a survey of …
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"Down with the landlords" : tenant activism in New York City, 1917-1920
In 1920, the state of New York enacted the first rent control laws in the nation. Leading up to these laws were three years of tenant agitation and activism during a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. Tenants worked collectively, employed the techniques of labor unions, and lobbied their …
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Community development: the use of corporate social responsibility initiatives by shopping centre landlords
… inspired an increasing call for shopping centres landlords to play a substantial role in community development. This study explores the relationship between shopping centres landlords and the communities in which they reside-in with regards to corporate social responsibilities. The study is based …
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Breaking Down the Monolith: Using Network Methods to Identify and Analyze Chicago’s Largest Landlords
… in the hands of large, sophisticated landlords. Large landlords are obscure in two senses. First, it is difficult to determine which actors own which properties. Second, the causes of landlord behavior (e.g., investment decisions and property management practices) are often complex and …
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Educational support for first-time homeowner/landlords in the Boston LISC 1-4 Family Housing Initiative
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The duties and rights of tenants and landlords under Swiss and South African law - a comparative analysis
… neglecting the legitimate interest of the landlords in particular, is crucial. Indeed, both countries, although having two different legal systems, can fall back on rent legislation that has been developed over several decades. To what extent the two rental legislations can currently be …
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The homelessness prevention puzzle : roles of landlords, tenants and professionals in preventing evictions and preserving affordable housing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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From landlord to rentier: The Wyndham Land Act 1903 and its economic consequences for Irish landlords 1903-1933
The abstract is included in the text.
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Sustainable Homes for All: Designing a Clean Energy Incentive for Boston’s Section 8 HCV Landlords to Improve Tenant Quality of Life
… through its relationships with over 15,000 landlords in the Section 8 HCV Program. This thesis develops the BHA Retrofit Rewards (BRR) Program: a Program that uses monthly ‘rent boost’ to financially incentivize Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) landlords to implement clean energy …
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Switches and mortar in the Internet's shadow : a study of the effects of technology on competitive strategy for the Internet's landlords
… This study proposes that developers and landlords need to use more forward-looking theories of competitive strategy in order to understand the current and future real estate needs of technology-driven commercial tenants. Telecommunications deregulation and the growth of the Internet led …
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Data and decontrol : a civic-tech approach for identification of predatory landlords in the New York City rent-regulated housing market
… worked tirelessly towards the identification of landlords whose profit model is based on fraudulent deregulation of the rent-regulated housing stock. The problem is that these bad actors are not so easy to identify. With the refusal of the controlling agency, the New York State Department of …
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The Bronx is burning a hole in my pocket : why gentrification may never come (and what might happen to lenders, landlords, renters & buildings instead.)
… system that doesn't bank on tenants to report or landlords to selfcertify, and that recognizes the social constraints on landlords and tenants as actors. Many of these gaps are bridged by community groups that can function as regulatory aides, advocates for both housing stock and property …
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Three Essays on Rental Housing Markets in the United States
… and Washington, DC. I compare the locations of landlords and rentals, examine the extent to which rental markets have concentrated ownership, and consider the difficult identification problem facing researchers who try to use administrative data to identify rental properties in the United …
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Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance
This dissertation addresses the critical role of landlords in implementing the Housing Choice Voucher program. Housing choice vouchers provide tenant-based rental assistance to low-income families so that they can have greater opportunities to select apartments and locations than under other rental …
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Power, Relationships and the Influence of Community Development in Alberta Community Housing
… a complex relationship between housing provider landlords and tenants. Housing providers have control over a significant aspect of tenants’ life through the approval and administration of their home. Community development, as a social process aims to inform and redistribute power in unbalanced …
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The incidence of U.S. agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates
… are primarily between farmers and non-farmer landlords, but no evidence exists concerning the incidence of subsidies on these two groups. By exploiting a unique policy change in 1996 and a nationally representative dataset of individual farms, I solve the endogeneity problem with fixed effects …
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Office leases & landlord investment in energy efficiency
… in the Boston office rental market and how much landlords invest in energy efficient building systems for their existing buildings? I am drawn to this question because it seems to me that there is technology available that would allow the operation of for-rent office buildings to be more …
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Landlord-Tenant Matching System: A Design Science Framework
… new immigrants requires a leap of faith by the landlords due to the lack of information available on these new immigrants. The lack of trust in this relationship is a research gap that is addressed by interpreting research done in the field of principal-agency problems to understand information …
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