They say it increases costs on small businesses and gives to strong a voice to absentee landlords.

他们是这会增加小型经营者的成本，并给予缺席的房主们更大的发言权。

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It had suffered from absentee landlords for going on 7 years in a row.

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The government insisted that the farms selected would be largely idle, belonging to absentee landlords, or else adjacent to crowded communal land.

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Whatever the cause, this "urbanization of poverty" has resulted in the large-scale erection of primitive forms of shelter, either on public land or on private land owned by absentee landlords.

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