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...Reagan Administration's approach to housing was another version of the supply-side experiment: instead of subsidizing low-cost construction, as Washington had done since the 1930s, the Reaganites decided to subsidize tenants. Give cash vouchers directly to the poor to help them pay their rent, went the theory, and the market would respond by supplying more housing. Vouchers have had some success in the Southwest, where prices are depressed and vacancy rates relatively high. But in much of the country, as housing prices have increased by 43% in the past eight years, voucher recipients have been unable to find...
...done little tangible good. Last February, Reagan signed the Housing and Community Development Act, which provides assistance to 152,000 needy families and authorizes the renovation of 10,000 run-down public-housing units. Neither bill does anything to encourage the desperately needed construction of new low-cost housing...
...example of a crisis lacking solution, Grant said, "For two-thirds to three-fourths of the principal causes of death and malnutrition, there is a low-cost technology solution...
...protesters demanded that Kennedy cosponsor HR 4990, a bill initiated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to authorize $15 million for new low-cost housing, but Kennedy refused. His press secretary, James Mahoney, said Kennedy supported a competing measure because he thought HR 4990 would leave too many decisions to the discretion of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
They took away a lot more than a piece of low-cost software. Hidden in nearly every disk was an extra program not supplied by any manufacturer: a snippet of computer code many consider to be the world's most sophisticated computer virus. Every time an unsuspecting user lent his new disk to a friend or colleague, and every time the disk was run on a machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes...