Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, you assume that prices for tenants who might choose to purchase their homes would be $100,000 or, perhaps, $75,000; and then assert "most people can't afford $75,000, either." But the binding prices already offered by the largest landlord in the city are lower than that: 3/4 of the prices are below...
...problem with Proposition 1-2-3 is that this theory doesn't mesh with reality. Some tenants gain, but only those who can afford to purchase a $100,000 unit. Those who can't will have a harder time finding an apartment, as owners who want to sell their rent-controlled units at a high price will have increased incentives to rent to the rich. The situation would largely revert to the ominous pre-1979 trends...
Well, most people can't afford $75,000, either. And a study for an anti-1-2-3 group based on previous sales in Cambridge revealed that a more likely price to tenants would...
...darted out into the road, and nice Michael (James Woods) mutters to his nice wife Linda (Glenn Close), "Some people should not be allowed to have children!" He is voicing a common belief that those who are having the most kids can't raise them, and those who can afford kids aren't having them. O.K. then. Who should raise the first generation of 21st century teenagers? The healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds of the underclass, with lives of noisy desperation awaiting them like...
...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...