This article is a perfect example of how word tenses can be used to manipulate and misrepresent information. The title says that the city "is spending" an amou

This article is a perfect example of how word tenses can be used to manipulate and misrepresent information. The title says that the city "is spending" an amount, which suggests that this is a routine cost, leaving the reader of the headline to fill in the blanks 'oh, is spending annually?'. But the tense in the article itself is different: > Most of the units are studios or one-bedroom apartments. The audit found 14% of the units build exceeded $700,000 each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost $837,000 per unit. "Is spending" != 'expected to spend'. The former has the unstated implication that this is a recurring cost, or at least that this is a cost the city is in the process of spending, whereas the article explains that this is only a projected cost.