It has morphed into a giant loophole for professional real estate operatives, allowing them to evade local laws and taxation, evict long-time tenants and convert entire buildings into tourist hotels.
This area has remained stable because small, local real estate operatives have worked with the business community to keep merchants in their stores and not gouge them on rent.
In recent years, it has been invaded by professional real estate operatives who are converting badly needed housing in San Francisco (as well as in hundreds of other cities) into Airbnb tourist hotels.
But over the last two years Airbnb has morphed into something quite different: it has been invaded by professional real estate operatives who rent out multiple units, not just a spare bedroom.
Goregaon's Garden Estate Co-operative Housing Society asked Tijori and his family to vacate their house in November 2012, following complaints from their neighbours.
Places that might complicate this – Chartist villages, London county council estates, co-operative housing, Tayler and Green's modernist-picturesque postwar villages in Norfolk, to name a few – don't feature.
Community-controlled estates, housing co-operatives and community land trusts are all suitable alternatives with proven success.
In a seeming evolution of police corruption, it was no longer patrol cops being paid off by drug dealers, but rather Chiefs and Borough Commanders hobnobbing with wealthy, real estate-oriented political operatives.
DONALD TRUMP OWES HIS POLLSTER THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS - Matea Gold: "Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.
Mr. Co, 64, is accused of promising an undercover F.B.I. operative who posed as a real estate broker that he could sway land use decisions by the City Council.
