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Meanwhile, the annual turnover of social workers hovers as high as 70% in some states. "You can't even run a Burger King with a 70% turnover," says Howard Talenfeld, a Florida lawyer. Social workers have always been undertrained, exhausted and second-guessed--so much so that some have turned to a negative kind of creativity. In Milwaukee, for example, social workers don't answer the phone when their caseloads are full. In other places, they simply stop visiting homes where some children are known to be abused because death doesn't seem imminent. They take advantage of recently implemented...
...profits years ago without maintaining their buildings, and the massive repairs needed now are beyond their means. As tenants become more militant and prod city authorities into stricter enforcement of housing codes, landlords see their profits dwindling and their properties tied up in red tape. Says former Slumlord Murray Talenfeld, who now lectures on real estate at the University of Pittsburgh: "Pretty soon the slumlord has the feeling he is controlled like a public utility, so he just walks away from his properties and says to hell with...