Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study of 50 American cities, William Tucker found that, of all factors commonly suggested to explain homelessness, the existence of rent control has the single strongest correlation. Rent control, he found, is typically associated with a 250 percent increase in homelessness...
...frustrated [that] the state's housing programs are paralyzed. On the federal level funding has been cut 80 percent during the Reagan years. There is nothing left except local action and local commitment," Barrett said...
...voted to support the initiative petition of the Massachusetts Municipal Association that would set aside 40 percent of the state's growth tax for aid to cities and towns...
Stock indexes fell 1.8 percent in Tokyo, 3.2 percent in London and a steep 12.8percent in Frankfurt, West Germany, where onetrader described trading as a "bloodbath...
...addition, voters will be faced with a referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3 that could reduce by thousands the number of rent-controlled apartments in a city where more than 70 percent of residents do not own their own homes...