Word: ares
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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...
It may seem O.K. to your editorial board that rent-controlled apartments in fact don't go to the poor, but are distributed to whoever offers the most money for one via a Reward poster behind the Coop. The whole system cries out for reforms like mine.
And since there are only so many ways to divide up the nine council seats, not all of them can be fully proportional.
"There are some folks who simply don't like PR," he says. "When the next fiscal crisis hits--and we all agree that it will hit in the next two to four years--I think that there will be increasing sentiment to change Plan E."
And Cunningham says he thinks people in the city are becoming more receptive to a traditional voting system of wards and districts.