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In 1981,
Donald Trump was facing a dilemma. He had purchased a series of elegant but old
buildings overlooking Central Park in New York, hoping to quickly demolish them
and erect new, glitzy replacements where he could charge sky-high rent. But one
of them, 100 Central Park South, was filled with tenants who had no interest in
giving up their rent-controlled apartments, and Trump was having a hard time
convincing them to leave.
The problem
was of his own making. "I didn't fully understand until much later…that
it's almost impossible to legally vacate a building filled with rent-controlled
and rent-stabilized apartments," he noted in his 1987 bestseller, The Art
of the Deal. But that didn't mean he didn't try. He sent eviction notices and
cut off heat, hot water, and other services, according to lawsuits filed
against him. None of that worked, so he tested another solution.
From Mother Jones, read it HERE
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