Based on the principle that nobody should have to pay more than a third of their income on rent (the widely recognised threshold of housing affordability), we want councils to create a living rent where rents would be linked to average local earnings.
The all-pervasive darkness was pierced only by oil lamps and torches burning on the street stalls, feeble flames illuminating the meagre goods laid out by venders on patches of road, or on the thresholds of houses.
Every home is required to place a light at the threshold of the house: in the space, so to speak, where the inside meets the outside, the inner meets the outer and self meets the world.
The practitioner makes the sign of the cross as he steps on the threshold of the house, then recites the genealogical charm, a pater noster and ave maria each three times.
So I stood on the metal threshold of our house.
Takes her all the way to the threshold of the house on the prairie.
Xian's wife was just ahead of him, crossing the threshold of their house when the frame collapsed.
Carrying a treatment chart in one hand and a stainless steel water glass in the other, he crossed the threshold of a house.
When they came back after the storm, the threshold of the house she had crossed more than four decades earlier, at age 21, was gone.
I also remember his gift for immobility, the way he could stand stock still on the threshold of our house, facing the neighbors' wall, holding a cigarette and the cup of black coffee our mother brought him.
A 7-year-old boy with a bullet in his back was weeping quietly in the emergency room: He had been standing at the threshold of his house at twilight, when a stray bullet chose him.
