Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 40: Winter 1975 While we recognize the motive behind these provisions and understand how' they could provide a reasonable means for satisfying tenant demands for necessary repairs to their dwellings, the fact is that more than 80 per cent of all nonmetropolitan rental units in North Carolina rent for less than $100 a month. Almost half of the units rent for less than $60 a month, including 18 per cent that rent for under $40. Under the repair and deduct provi sions, tenants in these dwellings would be permitted to have repairs made that amount to times the amount of their monthly rent each time they invoked this pro vision. Although the number of variables to be considered prevented our estimating the frequency with which the repair and deduct provision would likely be invoked, our survey indicates that more than half the nonmetropolitan units renting for less than $40 a month are in very poor condition, while another 36 per cent are of marginal quality. Indeed, almost eight out of every ten units rent ing for $40 are also in marginal or very poor repair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.