rent
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Most workers still want their jobs to be “about more than financial success or just a necessary evil to pay the rent,” author and Harvard professor Arthur Brooks wrote last year in the Atlantic.
From MarketWatch
Raman, who chairs the council’s Housing and Homelessness committee, has championed some traditionally progressive measures, such as just-cause eviction protections and strengthening the city’s rent stabilization ordinance.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2014, its then private-equity owner Golden Gate Capital sold off the chain’s real estate, tying Red Lobster with rent payments and leases, many of which continue almost indefinitely.
He hosted influencer-fueled parties at a Beverly Hills mansion he rented with a pool and basketball court.
The cost of shelter — rents and home prices — are also slowing.
From MarketWatch
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