But the longer the challenge of building new homes to keep pace with housing need is put off, the more likely it is that the existing stock will be put under untenable pressure – causing it to wear and decay at a time when homeowners cannot afford to repair it and landlords have no incentive to do the same.
Councillors in Enfield in outer London, where more properties and B&B rooms are secured by London authorities than anywhere else, have said the demand from inner London authorities is pushing up private rents and placing untenable pressure on school places.
The phrase next appeared in print in a 1923 Vanity Fair article by Walter Lippmann, "Education and the White-Collar Class" (which Fitzgerald probably read); it warned that widening access to education was creating untenable economic pressure, as young people graduated with degrees only to find that insufficient white-collar jobs awaited.
If you instead regard his position as untenable under pressure, do all you can to encourage this approach.
(Rauner cannily had headed off another potential source of untenable public pressure by signing the budget bill authorizing funding of K-12 education, thus ensuring elementary and high schools would open on schedule in the fall).
Without thousands of additional soldiers — a prospect that seems untenable, given political pressures in both countries — the report recommends rethinking the American civilian presence, which is projected to number 17,000 diplomats, contractors and others in 15 sites in Iraq.
The RCN has been warning that the growing number of medically complicated patients in hospital because of the ageing population and lengthening lifespans means that nurses are under "untenable and dangerous" pressures.
Presumably, similar but more acute tensions would confront any view of humanity that excluded some biological human beings or denied some of them full moral status, making racism and sexism untenable without placing any pressure on the concept of humanity itself.
"The IRS is being put in an untenable position because of political pressure from both sides," said Brad Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, a group that opposes campaign finance regulations.
First, the status quo must become so untenable that there is substantial latent pressure for change from some large segment of the population.
Lastly, whereas a complete moratorium on expansion of settlements may be untenable, the United States can exert sufficient pressure on Israel to be sensitive to Palestinian sensibilities and not commence major development projects at sensitive moments in the negotiations.
