Writing for The Village Voice, Norah Vincent, a freelance columnist, described the "Seinfeld" book as "a collection of essays by mostly third-rate philosophers from mostly substandard institutions -- a fact that should come as no surprise".
Rental apartments are mostly substandard as well with 78percentt, nearly 50,000 apartments, in the city needing major repairs.
*SRO: Single Room Occupancy (generally substandard housing).
We referred that child for chelation therapy and were able to take care of it but we recognized that more than 80percentt of the housing in south LA is substandard, mostly built before 1978.
He goes on to tell of a school that didn't collapse like so many others did, mostly due to substandard building contracts and officials skimming money intended for better quality materials.
One 2009 study conducted for the Fundación Secretariado Gitano looked at the housing of Gypsies in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain, and found that over all a third lived in substandard housing, mostly apartments lacking heat, hot water or electricity.
Significant parts of the city are densely packed with substandard, often dilapidated housing, inhabited mostly by construction workers, sweepers, factory labourers, and other low-income groups.
The Houston Chronicle reported last summer that the city rushed more than 20,000 mostly low-income, mostly black, Katrina evacuees into substandard housing.
Medicolegal agencies such as malpractice insurers, medical boards and complaints bodies are mostly passive regulators; they react to episodes of substandard care, rather than intervening to prevent them.
Their good fortune, however, has been a disaster for the mostly Latino immigrant population, which is being warehoused in substandard facilities to generate it.
Prices will go up for a small number (mostly young people who won't be able to buy substandard policies any more), but will come down for the vast majority of the buying public.
