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The idea of internal multiplicity is at least as old as Plato, who argued in The Republic that just like a city is divided into different social classes, the soul too is divided into parts with different characters, thriving only when justice and harmony reign among them.

In IFS, mental health symptoms like anxiety, depression, paranoia, and even psychosis were regarded not as impassive biochemical phenomena but as emotional events under the control of unconscious “parts” of the patient.

In IFS, mental health symptoms like anxiety, depression, paranoia, and even psychosis were regarded not as impassive biochemical phenomena but as emotional events under the control of unconscious “parts” of the patient — which they could learn to interact with directly.

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch recently cited an article by Roger Williams University School of Law professor David A. Logan a total of 16 times

The Providence area has among the nation’s largest gaps in supply of apartments affordable for people with very low incomes who earn less than 30% of the area median income, according to a recent report by the Urban Land Institute.

The number of families without an apartment or home increased 12% over the past year

providing housing is now simply another cost of doing business on the island.

JB Blau, the owner of the Year Round Restaurant Group, began offering subsidized housing to staff a few years ago.

The effort would be funded by a so-called transfer fee, a tax on real estate sales that has been proposed in a number of cities in the past year, including Boston. In this case, that fee would be 2 percent on any sale over $1 million, and it could be paid by the buyer or the seller, depending on how the legislation develops.

The Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank seeks to establish a permanent fund to underwrite year-round affordable housing for people at specific income levels.

The median home price in Duke’s County from January through May of this year was $1.15 million, according to the real estate data firm Link MV — a 58 percent increase from the same time period in 2019.

Only 38 percent of island housing is available for people to live in year-round

Housing is extraordinarily scarce, both because mainlanders have poured in since the pandemic began and because in recent years Airbnb spurred homeowners to convert long-term rentals into short-term ones, residents and housing advocates said.

Other steps that could make a difference include changing zoning laws to allow multi-unit housing, developing higher-density affordable housing, passing new regulations that would make it easier to build, and creating incentives for year-round rentals, according to a recent Housing Needs assessment by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Laura Silber, the coordinator of the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank, which is pushing to create a fund for affordable housing by taxing high-end real estate sales.

The G-7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S., agreed that businesses should pay a minimum tax rate of at least 15%.

Under the deal, G-7 members will back a global minimum tax rate on company profits and a new way of sharing the revenues from taxing the world’s largest and most profitable companies.