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HOUSING. The average cost of a home reached $25,900 compared with $24,200 a year ago. In San Francisco, for example, the price of a home climbed 12% in twelve months. One survey of the Bay area disclosed that there was enough low-cost housing to provide shelter for all the area's poor-but the comparatively well-off occupants refused to move out. Taxes took an ever deeper bite. In San Francisco, for example, property taxes jumped from $102.30 per $1,000 valuation...
...cost of construction varies sharply in the U.S. For a one-story, 1,400-sq.-ft. wood-frame ranch house with a basement, it ranges from $16,125 to $26,300, not counting land. The following comparative figures for the same house were compiled by Milwaukee's American Appraisal Co. In most of the high-cost cities, builders use union labor; in nearly all the low-cost cities, they use nonunion labor...
...LOW-COST CITIES...
...fixing. They argue that the job would have tied up such a large share of the facilities of U.S. Steel or Bethlehem that both companies had to add unusually large contingency costs to their bids. Defenders of the big firms also say that the smaller companies are using much low-cost Japanese steel and that the Port Authority loosened the specifications to enable the smaller firms to bid low. However, an Authority consultant maintains: "The number of tons, the character of the work, the size of the job, and the difficulty of erection were the same...
Even within the A.M.A., younger practitioners regard as archaic the association's attitude toward public health. Membership (currently 217,000) has declined in proportion to the total number of doctors, although the 100,000 nonmember physicians thereby forgo low-cost insurance plans and valuable research material. Many resent A.M.A.'s geriatric leadership: the average age in the ruling House of Delegates is 62. That body in turn controls the activities of AMPAC (American Medical Political Action Committee). Last year AMPAC doled out an estimated $2.6 million in political contributions to candidates who mirrored its conservative views...