I wish it were still that way...there are lots of homeless now. Sadly, the corporate greed syndrome has caught up with us, but some 90% of the time the owners doing the evicting of tenants are foreign owners living far away. What they are doing, to get around very moderate rent controls, is evicting people under the "need to renovate" clause, then just painting a room and renting to new tenants for up to $500 per month more.
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A smile can be infectious. Let's hope they never find a cure.