The Tenant

What I think is meant by “Cotton Culture” is an exclusive, hospitable group of farmers that prestigiously operated a large acreage of land, to make profit for themselves and their tenants. Before the Civil War, the South became very self sufficient in sharecropping; gaining for profit and obtaining free labor. Plantation owners would travel from one state to another visiting friends and showing hospitality with their profits by way of southern cooking, music and like formal parties. I can…

The children’s book Fiona’s Luck (2007) is written by Teresa Bateman and illustrated by Kelly Murphy.Depending on where you go, you can find this book listed as a folktale, fairy tale, fable, myth, or fantasy. On Scholastic.com (2016) Fiona’s Luck is listed as all five genres. Teresa Bateman book Fiona’s luck is age appropriate for children ranging from four to eight years old according to Amazon.com (2016). Bateman explores the rich history of the Irish people while mixing in a fantastical tale…

move,” she said. “This is protecting our nation’s most vulnerable people” (qtd. in Mills). It never hurts for tenants to inform landlords it is their right to enforce a no smoking ban. 3. What is the impact of the policy on this institution? The Smoke-free Affordable Housing trend toward not smoking in affordable housing is accelerating. In June of 2009, Housing and…

which was giving them insufficient income. The mothers often had to choose between paying their rent and feeding their children. When the tenants would get behind on rent, the landlords would be forced to evict them. The landlords themselves could not pay for the complexes without the money from the tenants. An eviction is a permanent stain on the record of a tenant, so once someone is evicted they are unlikely to get affordable housing. This throws the evictees into an endless cycle of…

primary issue, the reason why a lot of private landlords to not accept social tenants is because they will not take housing benefit payments, so a private landlord not receiving their rent may not be able to pay their bill and may not be able to exist, and if they take on a large proportion of social tenants, e.g. a private landlord with 20 properties with social tenants living in them, it is likely that 7 of those tenants will be in serious arrears potentially and for a private landlord that’s…

What I hope to learn at my internship is how to help tenants learn about their rights despite their immigration status. I want to increase my knowledge of tenant right and the effects the new industries have on them as a community. I want to gain more experience that will help me in my future career as a social worker. I expect to make connections through my agency and acquire a new skill. One of the specific things that I would like to learn about at my internship is how to have the proper…

While Shukumar was away, Shoba rushes to the hospital to give birth to her baby; however, the baby doesn't survive. This incident caused Shoba to change and her relationship with her husband to become cold and distant. Shoba starts to busy herself with her work while Shukumar stayed mostly at home. Their relationship became very fragile after the death of their baby. Shoba finally decided to move away and not live with his husband anymore. When Bobby is attacked by the monkeys, Mr. Kapasi goes…

when essential features of rent control ordinances are considered. One thing to consider is self-maintenance; since the responsibility of upkeep lies with both the tenant and the landlord, the tenant’s assistance “often partially offsets a landlords neglect” (Jenkins, 2009, p.80). Moon and Stotsky hypothesized that long term tenants often engage in self-maintenance, which can often compensate for any under maintenance on the part of the landlord (Jenkins, 2009). Glaeser (2002) theorizes that…

Describe some of the problems for commercial tenants that may occur when the building is sold. One of the main problems that a tenant of a commercial property encounters during the sale of their rented building is, having to obtain a lawyer to help review their lease agreement. The tenant’s lease must be carefully reviewed for any clauses that might terminate their lease agreement upon the sale, in addition if no such clause exists the tenant will be required to to provide an estoppel…

many ethnic and demographic groups in New York as well as their struggles within a societal system that promotes inequality. Meanwhile, James Agree in his book Cotton Tenants which was written as a magazine article based on similar theme as Riis except his story took place in the south. Agree wrote about three families which were tenants and sharecropper in Hale County, Alabama. He records on how the three families navigate through an unfair agriculture system where the poor were giving land to…