Report, if you have a problem with this page“ The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had made $42,500 in rent but paid only $2,400 in maintenance. When accused of making excessive profits, the landlord simply replied, “That’s why I bought the building. ”
Matthew Desmond
From : Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
