Ms. Downing, who took a job as a bicycle messenger to contribute to the rent, broke both legs in separate accidents.
This year the chancellor George Osborne has cut all government funding to build new homes for social rent, breaking a cross-party consensus stretching back a century to the Addison Act in 1919.
The durable hardware is meant to need less service so you're less likely to rent a broken, or worse, half-broken-but-I'm-late-so-I'll-ride-it-anyway scooter.
Twitter, incentivised by attractive tax and rent breaks, has landed in a previously (and if I'm honest, still) sketchy part of town, bringing in its wake a wave of new, exciting restaurants.
Several tenants considered asking for a rent break, on account of the ghosts — in 1991, the New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of a man who wanted to back out of buying a house after learning that the owner believed it to be haunted — but management's official position is that ghosts do not exist.
"Artists are always being pushed out, right?" Considering the rent breaks and cheap space they've received, many of those leaving 70 Washington are loath to paint Two Trees as villains; some art groups, in fact, credit Two Trees with helping them relocate in the neighborhood to better-maintained or newly renovated spaces.
Canary Wharf owes its success not only to the entrepreneurship of its developers, but also to the 1799 Act of Parliament that created the West India Docks, to the tax and rent breaks of the London Dockland Development Corporation and to the construction with (mostly) public funding of the Jubilee Line extension.
Or the choking off of all new government funding for social rented homes, breaking a cross-party consensus stretching back to the 1919 Addison Act, when the need for strong public action has never been starker.
An apartment they help rent has been broken into and vandalized.
