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...neighborhood issues, the elderly and the homeless. His biggest contribution to the council has been his ability to bring in new ideas. Cyr has taken a hard look at using the money in the affordable housing trust fund and has created a land bank. Both programs will hopefully convert vacant city lots into low-income housing...
...consider the facts: rent control has consistently failed to improve the living conditions of the poor because it deprives landlords of any incentive to rehabilitate their buildings, and in fact encourages them to leave their buildings vacant to gain tax write-offs. Price limits fixed by rent control prevent Cambridge's many small landowners from making a profit, which leads them to conclude that money invested in their buildings is wasted capital. The resulting shortage of available housing contributes to the problem of homelessness. Those interested in actually helping the poor and homeless should, therefore, vote against all proponents...
...state control. But he has not even spelled them out, much less introduced them. Meanwhile, his government and the Russian parliament have been unable to agree on whether to postpone local elections now scheduled for Dec. 8, and have left the jobs of prime minister and chairman of parliament vacant. "Russia's government is paralyzed," said Yevgeni Saburov, announcing his resignation as economic minister in early October...
...unclear how much the offer will save the University in the long run, but some vacant positions will not be filled and others will likely be taken by younger, less-skilled, lower-salaried employees, according to Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott, in an interview earlier this year...
...prints of Christian crosses are among the most mesmerizing in the show. "Cross, San Rafael, California" (1932) is probably the most unnerving of these. The landscape, vacant and unadorned, is dominated by a tall, thin, utterly white cross. To add to the atmosphere of peculiar barrenness, Adams tilts the perspective. The power of ambiguity is awesome. The cross demands adherence yet remains barely standing--at once domineering and impotent...