Thursday, May 24, 2007
Haha
Berkeley's plan for the reduced-emissions future includes:
Landlords will be required to provide free bus passes to tenants.
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Bus passes for apartment dwellers and eventually for everyone. Landlords would be allowed a small rent increase (equal to $7 per month in today's costs) to pay for tenants' passes; funding of passes for all residents has not been identified. I'll avoid getting into a discussion of what the word "free" means. This comes from Tom Fletcher at Nuts and Boalts who points out the obvious (i.e. $7 doesn't buy a monthly bus pass). But don't worry. Students, who are new tenants, will just subsidize the long-term residents by paying higher rents.
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