<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - slumlord</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/slumlord</link><description>Newsvine - slumlord</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:16:34 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>&quot;US Bank Is A Slumlord&quot; Says Los Angeles City Attorney</title>
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Los Angeles - "This case concerns defendant U.S. Bank National Association, a national bank that has become one of the largest slumlords in the City of Los Angeles." So begins a lawsuit brought by the L.A. city attorney's office.
The complaint alleges that U.S. Bank, through f&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Desert Rattler]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Desert Rattler]]></source><link>http://the-desert-rattler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/21/12878609-us-bank-is-a-slumlord-says-los-angeles-city-attorney</link><guid>http://the-desert-rattler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/21/12878609-us-bank-is-a-slumlord-says-los-angeles-city-attorney</guid><category>wall-street</category><category>arizona</category><category>money</category><category>california</category><category>los-angeles</category><category>phoenix</category><category>attorney</category><category>us-news</category><category>top-news</category><category>lifestyle</category><category>us-bank</category><category>slumlord</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-desert-rattlerFDEC2D5B-23E9-98BF-6A00-8C2FAC64089F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="301" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-desert-rattlerFDEC2D5B-23E9-98BF-6A00-8C2FAC64089F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>San Fran slumlord fined $800K for renter squalor</title>
<description><![CDATA[A San Francisco landlord has been fined a city record $800,000 for allowing tenants to live in squalor at his rental properties.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12661052-san-fran-slumlord-fined-800k-for-renter-squalor</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12661052-san-fran-slumlord-fined-800k-for-renter-squalor</guid><category>us</category><category>fined</category><category>san-francisco</category><category>us-news</category><category>sf</category><category>slumlord</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:29:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's housing record, part three A story about what did not happen  Warren Throckmorton</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[weimmom]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[weimmom]]></source><link>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833582-obamas-housing-record-part-three-a-story-about-what-did-not-happen-warren-throckmorton</link><guid>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833582-obamas-housing-record-part-three-a-story-about-what-did-not-happen-warren-throckmorton</guid><category>chicago</category><category>housing</category><category>politics</category><category>senator</category><category>obama</category><category>slumlord</category><category>slum-lord</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:47:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's  housing policies, part two  Cold constituents  Warren Throckmorton</title>
<description><![CDATA[For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[weimmom]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[weimmom]]></source><link>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833578-obamas-housing-policies-part-two-cold-constituents-warren-throckmorton</link><guid>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833578-obamas-housing-policies-part-two-cold-constituents-warren-throckmorton</guid><category>chicago</category><category>housing</category><category>politics</category><category>senator</category><category>obama</category><category>slumlord</category><category>slum-lord</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:43:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's housing policies - part one Is past prologue?   Warren Throckmorton</title>
<description><![CDATA[This post begins with an embedded video released with the Boston Globe article. Coming articles will explore in more detail the programs and people which contributed to the sorry state of housing in the South side of Chicago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[weimmom]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[weimmom]]></source><link>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833569-obamas-housing-policies-part-one-is-past-prologue-warren-throckmorton</link><guid>http://riggsmom1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/30/3833569-obamas-housing-policies-part-one-is-past-prologue-warren-throckmorton</guid><category>chicago</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>tenants</category><category>slumlord</category><category>slum-lord</category><category>senastor</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:41:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Judge orders Va. man to live in his neglected home</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Richmond man will have to live more than a month in one of his neglected rental houses as punishment for failing to maintain his properties. Oliver Lawrence was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail, followed by 40 days in home incarceration at a small, single-story house owned by his company, Bayou Properties. He also was fined more than $177,000.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/10/3487391-judge-orders-va-man-to-live-in-his-neglected-home</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/10/3487391-judge-orders-va-man-to-live-in-his-neglected-home</guid><category>us</category><category>odd</category><category>odd-news</category><category>us-news</category><category>punishment</category><category>slumlord</category><category>oliver-lawrence</category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:01:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's Olympic Bid: The Chicago Way </title>
<description><![CDATA[President Obama will be traveling with wife Michelle to Copenhagen, Denmark, this week in hopes of persuading the International Olympic Committee to hold the 2016 Summer Games in Chicago.  But is this effort on the city's behalf, or are there other interests at play here?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[EllieP]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[EllieP]]></source><link>http://elliep.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/29/3330953-obamas-olympic-bid-the-chicago-way</link><guid>http://elliep.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/29/3330953-obamas-olympic-bid-the-chicago-way</guid><category>olympics</category><category>politics</category><category>copenhagen</category><category>obama</category><category>cronies</category><category>slumlord</category><category>valerie-jarrett</category><category>chicago-way</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:53:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Slumlord Millionaire </title>
<description><![CDATA[Lawsuit claims landlord pocketed thousands while tenants died.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[cuzzenbud]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[cuzzenbud]]></source><link>http://cuzzenbud.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150938-slumlord-millionaire</link><guid>http://cuzzenbud.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150938-slumlord-millionaire</guid><category>lawsuit</category><category>millionaire</category><category>us-news</category><category>apartments</category><category>landlord</category><category>tenants</category><category>slumlord</category><category>dilip-barot</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:24:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Columbia University, Slumlord:  A case study in abusing eminent domain law. </title>
<description><![CDATA[At some point along the line, with all of these concerns, the knowledge that Columbia University can or will invoke eminent domain has caused them to seek out alternative space arrangements." Even when the university isn't taking direct action, its very presence drives away busin&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></source><link>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2164751-columbia-university-slumlord-a-case-study-in-abusing-eminent-domain-law</link><guid>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2164751-columbia-university-slumlord-a-case-study-in-abusing-eminent-domain-law</guid><category>us-news</category><category>eminent-domain</category><category>columbia-university</category><category>slumlord</category><category>manhattanville</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:10:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals | Judicial Watch</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have begun to wonder if Barak Obama has any friends or advisors with clean hands.  Seems like to me most of his friends and associates have a history of malcontent, terrorism, criminal or some type of fraudulent behavior.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[R Salyers]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[R Salyers]]></source><link>http://rsalyers.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/15/2114712-obama-advisor-valerie-jarrett-linked-to-real-estate-scandals-judicial-watch</link><guid>http://rsalyers.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/15/2114712-obama-advisor-valerie-jarrett-linked-to-real-estate-scandals-judicial-watch</guid><category>chicago</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>democrat</category><category>corrupt</category><category>real-esate</category><category>barak</category><category>slumlord</category><category>valerie-jarrett</category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:54:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bombadil Strategizes for Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama's candidacy for the Presidency of the United States continues its rapid and historic meltdown, I thought I might offer - free of charge, mind you, because I am a kind-hearted man - some strategic advice to The One, Lord Obama the Munificent, so that he can re-gain&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Bombadil]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Tom Bombadil]]></source><link>http://tombombadil.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/01/2062443-bombadil-strategizes-for-obama</link><guid>http://tombombadil.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/01/2062443-bombadil-strategizes-for-obama</guid><category>politics</category><category>louis-farrakhan</category><category>racism</category><category>presidential-campaign</category><category>chris-matthews</category><category>plo</category><category>vote-fraud</category><category>sirhan-sirhan</category><category>acorn</category><category>west-hollywood</category><category>rashid-khalidi</category><category>bernadine-dohrn</category><category>senator-john-mccain</category><category>saul-alinsky</category><category>american-hero</category><category>tony-rezko</category><category>militant-muslim</category><category>bill-ayers</category><category>william-ayers</category><category>governor-sarah-palin</category><category>joe-cook</category><category>seantor-barack-obama</category><category>dear-mr-obama-video</category><category>father-michael-pflegar</category><category>prairie-fire</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:37:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Ftombombadil2F2062872.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="569" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Ftombombadil2F2062872.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="171" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain ...&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Barack Obama ally Tony Rezko convicted of corruption </title>
<description><![CDATA[The conviction in Chicago of Antoin "Tony" Rezko on fraud, attempted bribery and money laundering charges prompted Republicans to raise concerns about Mr Obama's fitness for office.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></source><link>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/22/1773392-barack-obama-ally-tony-rezko-convicted-of-corruption</link><guid>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/22/1773392-barack-obama-ally-tony-rezko-convicted-of-corruption</guid><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>election-2008</category><category>tony-rezko</category><category>slumlord</category><category>rezko-convicted-of-corruption</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Landlord Under House Arrest At Home With No Hot Water</title>
<description><![CDATA[LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- A Cleveland area landlord is seeing what it's like living in a building where residents have had to go without their heat, hot water and gas stoves since last month.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pete ZaHutt]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Pete ZaHutt]]></source><link>http://petezahutt.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/22/733180-landlord-under-house-arrest-at-home-with-no-hot-water</link><guid>http://petezahutt.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/22/733180-landlord-under-house-arrest-at-home-with-no-hot-water</guid><category>ohio</category><category>cleveland</category><category>us-news</category><category>lakewood</category><category>house-arrest</category><category>section-8</category><category>lakewood-ohio</category><category>slumlord</category><category>absentee-landlord</category><category>rocky-river</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>