(n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(2) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(3) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(5) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
(6) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(7) The average housing benefit withdrawal varies across the country, with the figure reaching £15.64 a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.
(8) • Plans to consult on increasing discounts under right to buy – the scheme which allows social housing tenants to buy their properties.
(9) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(10) RBH's first membership meeting, at which tenants and employees could sign up to join the mutual, was oversubscribed.
(11) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(12) It also represents the legalisation of a two-tiered system of tenants' rights – those who can afford to have rights and those who can't."
(13) Lord Freud said government research suggested receiving housing welfare payments direct would be entirely new for only around 20% of tenants, and the pilot projects will evaluate how to support these people.
(14) After a one-year interval, a structured interview designed to assess the quality of life was again conducted with most of the tenants in a single-room occupancy hotel in New York City.
(15) Phil Morgan, director, Phil Morgan Consulting Phil is the former executive director of tenant services at the Tenant Services Authority.
(16) Getting the tenant out does not avoid the need for compliance.
(17) Every tenant's story is different, but there are a number of strands that feature regularly among complaints.
(18) And it says the eligibility of his tenant to live in the flat has never been assessed.
(19) Many tenants feel they have been given far too little information about their rights, with very few knowing they have a right to appeal against decisions about withdrawal of housing benefit until April 2014.
(20) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.
Tenement
Definition:
(n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
(n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(2) They brought up Adelson and his three siblings in a tenement in a tough neighbourhood of the town of Dorchester.
(3) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(4) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(5) When New York's population more than tripled between 1850 and 1900, the city responded by building dense and (by the period's standards) high, constructing cheap tenements within the city's heart.
(6) "One of the things that is really wonderful about Limelight is that it shows Chaplin returning to the London of his youth: the tenements and music halls that he knew.
(7) Some people like it, some don't Or maybe @curlyadamb has it down pat: Italians cooking pizzas in frying pans in their tenement ovens after leaving the old country...
(8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(9) Kathmandu, a city of 3 million, has expanded exponentially in recent years, with acre after acre of farmland covered by poor-quality cement tenements.
(10) The old tenements have been sandblasted, students are moving in, attracted by cheaper accommodation, and some private houses have been added to the mix.
(11) In those accounts – for the financial year ending March 2014 and filed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Adani Mining describes its principle activity as “the exploration and evaluation of coal mining tenements [permits] in Queensland Australia ... to identify commercially exploitable mineral reserves and resources for development and extraction”.
(12) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(13) Above Houlihans the chemist is a pink sandstone tenement where nearly every flat has its windows boarded with steel shutters and greying sun-bleached chipboard sheets.
(14) She is a former social worker who was brought up by a single parent in a tenement in Edinburgh.
(15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
(16) Workers and their families were packed densely into unsanitary tenements.
(17) Clearly people can live like that, but frankly I thought that overcrowded tenements were something that Britain had left behind.
(18) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(19) The rapidly expanding city of the 1920s housed its working classes either in these small rooftop rooms ( cuartos de azotea ), or in the more well-known vecindades , Mexico’s version of tenement buildings.
(20) When asked if he still stood to make a "bucket load of money" from the Mount Penny mining tenement, Obeid replied: "That's my family's entitlement.