Storm-condemned apartments spawning break-ins (Galveston County Daily
News)
Neighbors of the condemned Ashton Place apartments say people have
turned the buildings into a rent-free lair and that crime in the area has
increased.
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Rent discounts popping up as apartment vacancies climb (Tucson
Citizen)
The economic downturn and a state law against hiring illegal
immigrants have dramatically increased the number of vacant apartments in
Tucson.
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Chilling Audiotapes Released 4 Years After Fatal Fire (NBC New
York)
Two New York City firefighters died as a result of a landlord's greed
and his desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided
apartments, prosecutors said Monday.
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Prosecutor: Firefighters from LI walked into 'death trap'
(Newsday)
Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05
death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments
from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters
in a January 2005 blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said
Monday in opening arguments of the manslaughter trial of two tenants and
the landlord. ...
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Prosecutor: 'Death trap' was set for bravest (Newsday)
Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05
death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments
from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters
in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said Monday.
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