The debate in Galveston reflects a dilemma poor citizens elsewhere face: As the need for low-income rental housing rises, exacerbated by the economic downturn and the foreclosure crisis, the supply of subsidized housing has shrunk.
Even in countries where the governments have kept public-sector wage rises low, strains are showing in other ways.
The flooding of overflow office districts in low-lying areas like Metairie could raise demand for high-and-dry high-rises downtown.
Enterprise-class DDoS protection on the low-end typically costs a few thousand dollars and rises steeply from there, sometimes reaching as high as six figures.
Mr Ensour told state TV that the price rises would be offset by government payments to low-income families.
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Mr Ensour told state TV on Tuesday that the price rises would be offset by government payments to low-income families.
The Bank of Thailand has already warned that its 3.25% policy rate is too low, and most investors have priced in further rises by year-end.
If inflation rises, the low yield could cause you to lose money on an inflation-adjusted basis.
But even more pertinent is the huge variation in their national interests, between those such as low-lying small islands that may literally cease to exist as nations as the sea level rises, and the oil-producing states of the Persian Gulf and Opec for whom the priority is to keep the oil and gas flowing.
Le Corbusier's were wrecked by the adoption of high rises for human habitation - something he never envisaged, believing that most people should live in comparatively low-rise apartment buildings.
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