Rent Commission in the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on the District of Columbia, Congress of the United States, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3764, a Bill to Create and Establish a Commission, as an Independent Establishment of the Federal Government, to Regulate Rents in the District of Columbia, January 12-14, 19, 23, 26-28 1925 ... |
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... Avenue . 167,300 60,000 June , 1921 . Geneva . 1939 Seventeenth Strect . 176 803 01 132,000 | 30,841 37,000 4,500 ... NW Valois .... 1330 Massachusetts Avenue . Chaumont 1336 I Street .. Brunswick 1330 I Street ... 36 RENT ...
... Avenue . 167,300 60,000 June , 1921 . Geneva . 1939 Seventeenth Strect . 176 803 01 132,000 | 30,841 37,000 4,500 ... NW Valois .... 1330 Massachusetts Avenue . Chaumont 1336 I Street .. Brunswick 1330 I Street ... 36 RENT ...
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... St. Mihiel . Brunswick .... Clifton Terrace . Pelham Courts . Nansemond . Marne ..... 1321 Belmont Street . 1329 Belmont Street .. Earlington Damariscota . 2800 Connecticut Avenue NW . Kingsboro .... Prince George .. Eutaw 1820 California ...
... St. Mihiel . Brunswick .... Clifton Terrace . Pelham Courts . Nansemond . Marne ..... 1321 Belmont Street . 1329 Belmont Street .. Earlington Damariscota . 2800 Connecticut Avenue NW . Kingsboro .... Prince George .. Eutaw 1820 California ...
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... NW . He has been paying a rent of $ 25.50 . He has been notified that he must begin on the 23d to pay $ 32.50 , pay ... Avenue and Georgia Avenue and Sherman Avenue and the streets leading off of those 126 RENT COMMISSION IN THE ...
... NW . He has been paying a rent of $ 25.50 . He has been notified that he must begin on the 23d to pay $ 32.50 , pay ... Avenue and Georgia Avenue and Sherman Avenue and the streets leading off of those 126 RENT COMMISSION IN THE ...
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... Avenue , bounded by Nineteenth Street , and buy property or try to buy property that the real estate men have to ... NW . to - morrow , and tell me where there are 150 houses that I can rent for $ 30 a month , I will fill them all ...
... Avenue , bounded by Nineteenth Street , and buy property or try to buy property that the real estate men have to ... NW . to - morrow , and tell me where there are 150 houses that I can rent for $ 30 a month , I will fill them all ...
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... Street NW . The CHAIRMAN . Is that an apartment house ? Mr. NORFLEET . An apartment house rented by George W. Linkins , 1719 K Street NW . When we moved in they charged us $ 50 . The CHAIRMAN . What size was the apartment ? Mr. NORFLEET ...
... Street NW . The CHAIRMAN . Is that an apartment house ? Mr. NORFLEET . An apartment house rented by George W. Linkins , 1719 K Street NW . When we moved in they charged us $ 50 . The CHAIRMAN . What size was the apartment ? Mr. NORFLEET ...
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_do_ 9 rooms apartment house Avenue NW B. F. Saul bill Boss & Phelps BROWN building CALLAHAN cent CHAIRMAN Chastleton Clifton Terrace committee Congress Connecticut Avenue District of Columbia Doctor WALDRON electricity emergency eviction fact Fourteenth Street Furnished Georgia Avenue GORE H Street H. L. Rust HAGNER heat increase JONES of Washington kitchen land landlord legislation Linkins MACCHESNEY ment Miss NALLS month Moore & Hill owner paid PETTY question real estate board REED Rent Commission rent law rental Representative BLANTON Representative HAMMER Representative LAMPERT Representative STALKER Rhode Island Avenue rooms and bath salary Senator COPELAND Senator JONES Seventh Street Shannon & Luchs six rooms Sixteenth Street statement Stone & Fairfax Street NW Supreme Court Takoma Park tenants testimony three rooms TSCHIPKE Unfurnished United vacant WARDBY WHALEY WHITEFORD Wisconsin Avenue WORRELL
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Page 45 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use,...
Page 212 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 449 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Page 425 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 432 - The general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
Page 241 - depending upon the existence of an emergency or other certain state of facts to uphold it may cease to operate if the emergency ceases or the facts change even though valid when passed.
Page 44 - To say that a business is clothed with a public interest is not to import that the public may take over its entire management and run it at the expense of the owner. The extent to which regulation may reasonably go varies with different kinds of business.
Page 50 - ... formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied.
Page 55 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Page 658 - States are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.