At the same time, Mr. Ng said, the unique circumstances resulting from the World Trade Center attack might make some housing court judges more sympathetic to tenants' concerns.
"Either way, I'm only going to do this for a few months, just long enough to make some house payments and keep my kids in Catholic school," says Matt, whose children are not Catholic.
Around 60% produced victories for the slow-growth lobby.Environmental pressures also resulted in high fees for developers, an approval process for new construction that is among the most complicated in the country (developers complain it adds about $70,000 to the cost of a single-family home), and an epidemic of lawsuits over construction defects that have made some housing uninsurable.
In his poem "An Urban Convalescence," James Merrill wrote of the "dull need to make some kind of house / Out of the life lived, out of the love spent".
Retirement… In his poem "An Urban Convalescence," James Merrill wrote of the "dull need to make some kind of house / Out of the life lived, out of… The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The sometimes picturesque beauty of Florent Henry's photography might make some hardcore art-house adepts suspicious – as if anything this consciously gorgeous can't be the real thing – but the touches of artifice in the realism are genuinely striking.
"He's performing what James Merrill knew was the most important task of all, taking care of the 'need to make some kind of house / Out of the life lived, out of the love spent,' "Melanie Rehak said here last year.
First, in much of the country, the owner-occupied housing stock resembles the rental housing stock so little that it's a stretch to make some small subset of rented houses represent the owner-occupied units.
If they can make some order in our house, that's fine.
At the topmost corner of the garden I thought we'd make some kind of summer house as a reward for anyone who got up there.
