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(Archived document, may contain errors) I 685 January 12,1989 I A1MEJRIcAS HOlVIFUSS VICIIMS OF RENT CONTROL INTRODUCTION Americas housing situa tion poses a strange paradox. Overall, Americans have never been better housed. The rental vacancy rates for 1987 stood at 8.5 percent, the highest in two decades. More than 60 percent of Americans live in their own homes. And as Rutgers University schola rs George Sterdieb and James W. Hughes of the Center of Urban Policy Research point out there is now one bedroom for every American.

A decade ago, the idea that there might be homeless people living in tents was unthinkable

In the 20th century, there were dozens of Skid Rows across America, but only one has been at the same location for over a century: Skid Row, Los Angeles.

Tara Elaine Brennan is a Proud Community Servant

Terry Gilliam's ambitious "12 Monkeys" was co-authored by David Peoples, who wrote "Blade Runner," and it has the same view of the near future as a grunge pit - a view it shares with Gilliam's own "Brazil." In this world, everything is rusty, subterranean, and leaks. The movie uses its future world as a home base and launching pad for the central story, which is set in 1990 and 1996, and is about a time traveler trying to save the world from a deadly plague. The traveler is Cole (Bruce Willis), who in the opening shots lives with a handful of other human s...