Tag / housing
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Evaluating Candidates’ Housing Policy Proposals
Housing affordability is on many people’s minds as rents in cities like San Francisco, New York and Seattle have skyrocketed in recent years. Renters are paying increasingly high proportions of their incomes in rent as housing price growth has outstripped both inflation and wage growth. As a result, these cities are becoming too expensive for…
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A Proposal to Make Upperclassmen’s Lives Easier
My shelf in the fridge often looks something like this: withering spinach in a filmy plastic bag and an empty egg carton. I don’t have a car, so I have to depend on friends with cars to be able to get the necessary produce to cook in my North Campus dorm. When I don’t make…
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Israel, Where Has Your Zionism Gone?
It is difficult to be considered a true patriot in modern Israel. Zionism, a belief in building a Jewish nation-state in the Land of Israel, was used as a basis for the state’s establishment. While that may have been the purpose of the word in the past, many conversations with young Israelis have led me…
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The Stubborn Nails of China
For over a year, Luo Baogen and his wife lived in a house in the middle of a major road in the Zhejiang province of eastern China. The government asked them to move to make room for a highway but, unwilling to give up their recently renovated home for inadequate compensation, they stayed put and…
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The Fight for Students’ Rights
Last night, I found out that my school denied a petition for housing for a group of students, because one of the student’s sex assigned at birth does not match the others. Despite a petition of support from the whole floor and a letter from the two RAs of the floor endorsing the petition, Washington…
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A Challenge to Voters
If you are planning on voting in the 2010 midterm election, which you should be, please pay close attention to the following important bulletin. First, do not vote out an incumbent merely based upon your disgust with the current state of the economy. I will agree that the economy remains in tatters, but blaming politicians…
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On the Brink
While there have been plenty of good things happening this week, the stories that have grabbed my attention of late have all led me to suspect that The Glass is Half Empty. While this could certainly be a case of “the only good news is boring news,” I found that the stories that have most…
