Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last weekend my apathy turned around and slapped me in the face. What should have been a routine weekend trip home to Long Island almost ended in one big deregulated nightmare...
Proposition 2 exempts your own home from rent control, if you rent it out after you buy it. Rent control will continue to apply, just as before, to large buildings and landlords. But after you owner-occupy your single-family home or condominium for two years, you will be exempted from restrictions. This may actually increase the supply of rental housing, because owners who now sometimes keep their house vacant (rather than risk tying up their own home with complicated regulations) will now be able to rent without fear...
OWNING one's own home gives people financial security through saving (paying off the mortage), possible appreciation, income-tax reductions, a better-kept building...and a good old fashioned feeling, called The American Dream...
...opponents might try to use fear as a weapon against homeownership. But tenants will find they have nothing to fear from the empowerment my proposal will give them. On November 7, what tenants can gain with Proposition 1-2-3 is no less than their home, their security and their freedom...
...Negotiations with top-level people, the kind of people we want to present to the board, can get awfully sticky sometimes in terms of home campuses and other positions...