Rent assistance can be an easily implemented policy that can have significant positive effects on much more than housing affordability. It can even boost income tax revenue, make it easy to monitor and regulate rentals, and a stepping stone towards more complex policies.
With the intro of income tax there is the need and scope for a rental assistance scheme.
This could take the form of a refundable tax credit. (Refundable as in at 0 income your credit is higher than tax owed)
Could potentially have two important benefits apart from the obvious.
@NaajihDidi Thanks for sharing this. There are some other old languages that had the same. Do you know when other colors such as orange, pink and purple first came into Dhivehi? There's a theory that these colors won't emerge in a language before the blue-green distinction.
A short term fix is to reduce the fare difference of MVR 25 - MVR 75.
Of course the long term solution is a more holistic rethink around congestion surcharges for private vehicles and public transport
Since the 2000s there has been a sharp increase in our consumption of beef (and buffalo meat)
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I've just shared some obscure stuff but there are numerous quite useful stats too
For the record... the Sharia does not consider abortion to be murder when it’s before 120 days, which is when the soul is placed in the fetus. Before 120 days, abortion may be permitted, discouraged, or sinful depending on circumstance and intent.
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“Nothing”??? A mind set we must change. When tourism began we had pristine islands, reefs and beaches. The nartural capital on which the industry prospered. It was “everything” not “nothing”
That’s not the President. He’s been in Malé the whole time. This isn’t journalism it’s slander. Even when I corrected them dhiyares hasn’t bothered to take this down.
@Applecinnamonmv Even after all these years...her Haashaviyani program is incomparable to every thing else I've been able to find. In terms of language, content, delivery and fun. :-)
@Shahudh960 Same thing with virtual workspaces. Just imagine all this time most of us never had any reason to go to an office building at 8 am sharp wearing a karu malhi to get work done, except "it's how it was always done"
@SmileShihab MATI is like a pack of wild dogs being raised as pets. When food runs out the dogs start barking mad. Maybe they need to be put down before they turn on those who were feeding them. (By MATI I mean the top ppl who control it).