 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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We want the oldie out; Homes & Property lawyer Henry Stuart answers Londoners' queries.
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Byline: HENRY STUART
My mother owns a one-bedroom flat, which has been let to the same tenant since the 1970s. Now she is selling her own house to move overseas to look after my sick grandparents. This means that my sister, who is 20, and myself (I am 20), will both be homeless when she has gone.
My mother would be willing to let the flat to us, except that the tenant is a "sitting tenant" and she says she cannot get vacant possession because of this. Does she have any grounds by which she could obtain vacant possession of the flat? The rent has not been ...
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...assumptions about the role of the poor in a modernizing society" (p...reveals a surprising activism in poor relief. Many icons of Mexico...properties mandated by the 1856 Lerdo Law brought financial ruin on the Poor House. Close textual examination...
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Poor Americans Speak Out About Poverty; National Poll Reveals What It Means to be Poor in the United States
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire
; ...to organizations that help the poor (17 percent). Respondents...than three-quarters of the poor Americans surveyed said they...in ten had problems with the law. In a follow-up question...poverty since September 11. Of the poor responding, only about a quarter...
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The poor need a vacation, too
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...ourselves with travel for the poor? With "social tourism"? In...right? Yet in an America no law protects the right to a paid...of the railways, to provide poor persons with a free or drastically...reach of a great many of the poor, yet at no cost to their railroads...
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Poor governance contributes heavily to Asia's poverty.
M2 Presswire
; ...PRESSWIRE-27 April 2000-ADB: Poor governance contributes heavily...contributor to Asia's poverty is poor governance, manifested in corruption...violence, absence of the rule of law, and ineffective government...attentive to the needs of the poor. This explains why some of the...
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Ask the poor
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Wealth doesn't follow the laws of gravity - it doesn't trickle...at the top. Listening to the poor, recognizing that fully one- fifth of the Israeli public is poor, we would have to realize that...isn't a genetic defect. The poor are no more defective or stupid...
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Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies
; ...reformers created the Poor House in 1774, in conjunction with anti-begging laws, to confine, assist...vagrants and beggars. The Poor House's creation coincided...about the treatment of the poor, and active and passive...persons targeted by the laws. Periodic reversals of...
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The poor laws by a modern Tory name
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of the Tudor and Stuart poor laws, and thereby managed...interest in those poor laws a matter of urgent contemporary...beyond. The 1601 Poor Law Act made each parish responsible...selective application of these laws. For example, a manufacturing town might pay poor ...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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POOR IN AMERICA: A 27-YEAR HIGH
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...government counts people as poor if their income falls below...four earning $13,924 was poor. So was an individual earning...Working Americans are becoming poorer because George Bush is doing...them." Your chances of being poor increased if you: Were black...Laurel Weir of the National Law ...
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The poor laws by a modern Tory name Lorie Charlesworth finds disturbing echoes of the past in Peter Lilley' s ideas for a localised benefit system
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of the Tudor and Stuart poor laws, and thereby managed...interest in those poor laws a matter of urgent contemporary...beyond. The 1601 Poor Law Act made each parish responsible...selective application of these laws. For example, a manufacturing town might pay poor ...
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Poor relief and the dangerous and criminal insane in Scotland, c. 1740-1840.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...Johnson. Their writings on poor relief tend to conform to dichotomies...particularly the changes in law and practice during the 1800s and 1810s, for the law both shaped and reflected attitudes...in practice. (7) Scottish Poor Relief Royal Commissioners...report on lunatic asylums and the ...
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