Manny Gelder: Slumlord
Manny’s two buildings “are so desolated by age, decay, misuse, negligence, his own greed, and the shoddiness of their original construction that about all he can do .. . is milk them regularly for their RENTS.’THE POORHOUSE STATE, Mr. Elmans first nonfiction book, from which this chapter has been drawn, will be published later this month by Pantheon.