38. The following appeared in the editorial section of a campus newspaper.
Because occupancy rates for campus housing fell during the last academic year, so did housing revenues. To solve the problem, campus housing officials should reduce the number of available housing units, thereby1 increasing the occupancy rates. Also, to keep students from choosing to live off-campus, housing officials should lower the rents, thereby increasing demand.
校园报纸的社论：
由于校园住宅的用法率在过去的学年中降低了，住宅收入也降低了。为知道决这个问题，校园住宅办公室应该降低可用的住宅单元，从而增加用率。同样的，为了不让学生选择住在校外，住宅办公室应该减少租金来扩大需要。
1， 入住率低可能是由于学生人数降低等缘由导致的
2， 同时降低供给和减少房费或许会抵消入住率提升而带来的收入提升效应而有余
3， 即使不会完全抵消仍然有其他缘由影响收入比如说学生进入后的修理等等。
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1， 忽视他因：单纯地说问题所在是rent. 但事实上可能有不少其他的原因：房屋的condition, security, cleaning service，noisy surroundings等等。
2， 过去不可以推广到将来：非常可能变化了譬如enrollments of students have sharply increased。所以，非常可能降低available的数目可能不是适合的做法。
3， 降低提供的房屋，减少房租，非常可能致使收入降低。
The author of this article argues that, to reverse declining revenues from campus housing rentals4, campus housing officials should decrease the number of available housing units and reduce rent prices on the units. The authors line of reasoning is that fewer available units will limit supply while lower rents will increase demand, thereby improving overall occupancy rates, and that the resulting increase in occupancy rates will, in turn, boost revenues for the campus. This reasoning is unconvincing for several reasons.
To begin with, the author assumes that boosting occupancy rates will improve revenues. All other factors remaining unchanged, this would be the case. However, the author proposes reducing both the supply of units and their rental prices. Both of these actions would tend to reduce revenues. The author provides no evidence that the revenue-enhancing effect of a higher occupancy rate will exceed the revenue-decreasing effect of reduced supply and price. Without such evidence, the argument is unconvincing.
Secondly5, the author assumes that lowering rents will lead to higher revenues by increasing demand. However, it is possible that demand would decrease, depending on the extent of the rent reduction as well as other factorssuch as overall enrollment3 and the supply and relative cosplayt of off-campus housing. Moreover, even if demand increases by lowering rents, revenues will not necessarily increase as a result. Other factors, such as maintenance and other cosplayts of providing campus housing units and the reduced supply of rental units might contribute to a net decrease in revenue.
Thirdly, in asserting that lowering rental rates will increase demand, the author assumes that current rental rates are causing low demand. However, low demand for student housing could be a function of other factors. For instance, the student housing units may be old and poorly maintained. Perhaps students find the campus housing rules oppressive, and therefore prefer to live off-campus; or perhaps enrollments are down generally, affecting campus housing occupancy.
In conclusion, the author of this editorial has not argued effectively for a decrease in the number of available campus housing units and a reduction in rental rates for those units. To strengthen the argument, the author must show that a rent reduction will actually increase demand, and that the revenue-enhancing effect of greater demand will outweigh6 the revenue-reducing effect of a smaller supply and of lower rental rates.
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