The age-old conflict between landlord and tenant especially in times of a building boom, is beginning to trouble Tel Aviv.
After hearing a report of a conversation between Vice-Mayor Rokeach and District Commissioner Crosbie, the Municipal Council passed a resolution calling for prolongation of the Tenant’s Ordinance and the protection of tenants in line with the proposals made by Crosbie.
The resolution provides that the government take steps to see that rental for commercial properties be based on rents paid for the same properties during the year 1933 plus a maximum increase of twenty per cent. Rentals for buildings constructed in 1934, the resolution provides, should be fixed according to the rental paid in neighboring buildings occupied in 1933 plus a twenty per cent increase.
In conversations with the Vice-Mayor, Crosbie informed him that the High Commissioner was deeply interested in the rent question and requested that the municipality supply him with facts and figures to illustrate the workings of the Tenant’s Ordinance during the past year.
The District Commissioner stated it as his opinion that, if there were room for any law to protect tenants, those who needed protection most were those who used their premises for the purpose of earning their livelihood.
Alfred Julius Becher was head of the revolutionary central committee that held Vienna against Prince Windischgratz in the ’48 revolt.
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