Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regentrification is the process by which developers came into areas that had normally been inhabited by low-income renters and began erecting high priced condos. People living on welfare cannot afford condominiums. The more high-rent places you build without building new low-rent homes, the more people you force to live on the street. The U.S. Conference of Mayors found that by 1985, the homeless population was growing by 25 percent a year, and homeless families were the fastest growing group in that population...
Dukakis pointed out that Bush was in part responsible for the homeless problem by reducing the federal government's commitment to affordable housing and stated clearly that until you build housing that people can afford, they are going to have to live on the street. The commitment has to be reaffirmed, and Dukakis has stated that he will do exactly that...
Cambridge was to have let Harvard tear down the building in return for the University's promise to build a new, indoor parking garage that would have brought the city more revenue than the old spaces did. But Duehay, who opposes tearing down the motel at all, stalled the deal. He said last week that Cambridge should not give up a property right to Harvard without knowing what it was worth...
...Four" committee plans to build its treasury by holding statewide fundraising events to finance a media campaign. This could very well put the effort over the top, group members said...
...problem with this type of coverage is that NBC has eliminated the build-up of dramatic sports stories that are usually the most entertaining part of the Olympics. Instead of covering anything completely, they show everything incompletely...