Sentences with phrase «city expropriated»
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In many mid-sized cities the «not for profit» NPR affiliate is the glitziest radio / TV studio in town, with the highest salaries — all subsidized with government funds expropriated from the people.
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On a road outside the large West Bank Arab city of Ramallah, a Hyatt Regency hotel is being built on land also expropriated from Arab owners.
7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.
«Buildings and spaces that are sitting around unused or extremely underutilized could be expropriated by the city and turned into affordable housing or community centres,» said David Wachsmuth, a founding member of Abandonment Issues, «a Toronto - based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housing.»