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None - too long of a story to post - but I’ve been very active on all those threads so if you look, you’ll find why. I’m still in the process with one of them tho.
I've been called for developments outside my CB twice--because I had incredibly low log numbers. Having CB preference is the best, and for developments with more than 100 subsidized units, you'll almost always get called if your income was within the guidelines on the application. I've been called with numbers as high as 80xxx-plus because I was in the CB, and the developments were huge. But you can get called for developments outside your CB if your number is low (ideally below 500--I know someone will chime in with a exception but...that's been my experience). And yes, the lotteries are discriminatory--it's the inevitable result of a ridiculous rigidity in this process. If you're not young, forget it. Someone with brains and who lives in the 21st century and is attuned with the way work has changed since the 1970s needs to take over those guidelines.
None - too long of a story to post - but I’ve been very active on all those threads so if you look, you’ll find why. I’m still in the process with one of them tho.
So then perhaps I should have phrased my statement thus: "With CB preference you are a shoe in, without it you will not get into anything DESIRABLE."
It's beyond disgusting, but I don't believe (in my naivete) that it's on purpose. It's a result of an archaic system that no longer makes sense in the 21st-century world of work, making it impossible for older people to qualify, although they likely have the most secure income (Social Security, Medicare in a health crisis, assets to draw on in case of a pinch, etc). It's insane. And just to improve your previous answer, it's shoo-in, not shoe-in.
A possible start is to consider normal retirement age 65-67 as defined by Social Security or 65 by Medicare.
But perhaps a better number might be the age at which an unemployed person finds it impossible to be considered for a decent corporate job...maybe 50 or even younger?
It is a definitional and subjective word, and thus the meaning "depends."
It's beyond disgusting, but I don't believe (in my naivete) that it's on purpose. It's a result of an archaic system that no longer makes sense in the 21st-century world of work, making it impossible for older people to qualify, although they likely have the most secure income (Social Security, Medicare in a health crisis, assets to draw on in case of a pinch, etc). It's insane. And just to improve your previous answer, it's shoo-in, not shoe-in.
person,place,or thing that is obvious.
He is a shoe in for the job.
The location for her newstore is a shoe in.
Their idea for solving the personnel problem is a shoe in.
Please consult Webster's and not a source like Urban Dictionary, which is useful only for words or phrases without established usage. Please don't get into language issues with me, as you have no idea what you're up against. See page 1150 of Webster's Collegiate, or any legitimate writing or style guide. I'll be happy to send you a list of references if you're interested in shoe-in vs. shoo-in.
True, it doesn't really matter what you write on a forum like this, but you might need to write shoo-in in a real, non-anonymous situation, and I'd hate to have you look illiterate, as you seem like such a nice, helpful person.
Here, I'm copying Webster's definition for you:
Definition of shoo-in
: one that is a certain and easy winner
There, now you know. No need to thank me.
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