Article: Housing act should be fair to everyone

It's every landlord's nightmare.

He rents the two-bedroom apartment upstairs to a quiet, middle-age woman who says she will use the extra space as a sewing room.

Within days after she moves into the three-flat, granny opens her home to her two unemployed and drug-dealing adult sons and their girlfriends. One son's brood includes a foul-mouthed teenage son who has dropped out of high school and spends most evenings every summer hanging around outside the building with his loud, mean-looking friends, with boom-box blaring. The other son's girlfriend has a toddler and is expecting another baby in three months.

Evicting these Tenants From Hell won't be easy. It will take some careful ...

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