Sentences with phrase «affordable housing supply»

This has been achieved through both our affordable housing supply programme, which is on track to surpass our 30,000 affordable homes target, and schemes such as Help to Buy (Scotland) and the Small Developers Scheme, which will support the purchase of over 7500 homes by March 2016.

Instead we'll see the depletion of our already insufficient affordable housing supply — family homes sold off across London to fund discounts on Housing Association homes, with absolutely no guarantee of new replacement affordable homes being delivered in London.

But the Tories» Housing Bill is going to hit affordable housing supply hard.

Not exact matches

Real estate developers are under pressure in China to refurbish older properties for rental purposes to ease a supply shortage in the market for affordable housing, says Peter Churchouse of Portwood Capital.

This is a big, complex issue that requires a focussed national housing plan by senior government, to include new supply of affordable social housing.

Though these are positives for the future of housing and business competiveness, there are still challenges ahead in supplying a range of high - quality, affordable housing options for Orange County's workforce.

«People are finding more affordable alternatives as housing supply has increased, and rent control measures are helping to ensure rental prices remain predictable for tenants.»

So that's a question that I don't think we know the answer to, but if millennials can't buy the boomers house at the current value than basic supply and demand economics suggests that prices will have to fall to the point at which they're affordable to millennials.

In the housing plank of their platform, the BC Greens have taken both a supply and demand side approach to creating a more affordable housing market.

With the supply of student housing being as inelastic as it is, and an ever increasing demand for affordable housing, the company has found themselves on the right side of a supply - demand scenario.

The draft determination proposes to authorise Renewal SA to «sell a section of a development site in Bowden, South Australia to Investec on the condition that 40 per cent of the dwellings are developed as «affordable housing» supplied at below market rates.»

Setting out his legislative priorities ahead of the Queen's speech, Mr Brown unveiled three housing bills designed to boost supply of «affordable» housing.

«The key is delivery,» it states, adding that: «Should the objectives [on affordable housing] be met in full, the existing demand - supply imbalance would be substantially narrowed by 2020.»

Investing # 6bn to build 100,00 extra social and affordable homes would start to tackle the housing crisis and create new jobs in construction and the supply chain, putting money in people's pockets to spend on the High Street.

Housing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s andHousing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s andhousing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.

And what this is doing is increasing the supply of affordable housing.»

The clichés about housing supply and regulatory restraints are distractions from the need to focus on expanding the affordable housing sector to directly meet the needs of low - income households.

We are not on track to have secure energy supplies, low - carbon energy generation or affordable energy, and those three requirements matter very much to this House and to the country outside.

What is missing is a complementary strategy to increase the supply of genuinely affordable social housing, so that families don't have to end up in the more expensive (and less secure) private rented sector.

«The laws of Demand and Supply will dictate the way affordable housing goes and right now the main engine is demand.»

The city's supply of affordable housing is shrinking.

Improving the supply and quality of other housing options would help reduce the desperate desire to buy: that means a better offer for private renters and more truly affordable housing.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration said it was working rapidly to remove families from cluster sites into safer properties, but noted the number of families in need far exceeds the limited available supply of affordable housing.

These new homes would be cheaper to develop and more locked into existing infrastructure than those on London's remaining poor - quality brownfield sites, making it possible to supply more affordable housing.

The lack of supply of affordable homes has a detrimental impact on the mobility of social housing tenants - many languish on transfer lists for more than two years.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Housing and Local Government, Peter Black has called on the government to include a statutory duty in the Housing (Wales) Bill for its own Ministers to set termly targets for the supply of new affordable homes.

First, we must increase our supply of affordable housing.

High land costs are a side effect of a lack of supply due to preservation efforts, she said, adding the current town zoning code has also hindered efforts to attract affordable housing to the area.

Smith, the owner of a party supply rental shop, proposes mostly affordable housing.

«Due to the extreme shortage of teachers in the state, many school districts must seek opportunities to attract qualified teachers,» Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D - South San Francisco, said of his bill meant to increase the supply of affordable housing for teachers.

While demand for quality, affordable housing increases, the supply of mobile home parks is diminishing.

The City Council approved this Plan is a five year plan designed to help increase the supply of safe, adequate, and affordable housing for citizens.

Supporters say they have been instrumental to ensuring a steady supply of funding for home loans and affordable housing in the United States.

Owners who wish to keep their pet can be provided with resources to help resolve whatever problem led them to consider giving up the animal, such as information on resolving common behavioral problems, referrals for low - cost spay / neuter services and affordable veterinary care, information on pet - friendly housing or food and supplies to get the pet and owner through a crisis.

This data paints a dire picture for pets whose owners experience hardships or challenges that prevent them from keeping their animals, but many of these challenges can be mitigated or resolved through affordable and accessible veterinary care, increased access to pet - friendly housing, and better access to other supplies and necessities.

«While some of the reasons people re-home their pets are quite complex and difficult to change, many reasons given by the respondents in this study might have been easily resolved through affordable, accessible veterinary care, pet - friendly housing and access to other supplies and resources,» said Dr. Emily Weiss, vice president of research and development for the ASPCA.

Laneway houses are a way of increasing housing supply, but they are certainly no answer to the affordable housing crisis in Vancouver or anywhere.

From property taxes that supply revenue for schools, to state and local taxes that fund road and bridge improvements, water and sewer projects, local housing initiatives and environmental programs, to even royalty payments that can sustain family farms and businesses — oil and natural gas development generates local economic benefits well beyond producing affordable, reliable energy.

Finally, Accenture and Baker & McKenzie have provided a comprehensive legal assessment of a Chicago - area nonprofit that works to increase and preserve the supply of decent and affordable housing in Illinois for low - and moderate - income households.

To supply affordable housing to the public, lending and customer service... while maximizing profits.

And we'd remove the tax advantages that private landlords now enjoy — so we'd rebalance our housing supply so that homes are regarded as primarily secure, affordable places to live, rather than financial assets.»

Funding restrictions impacting on supply of affordable an appropriate housing, infrastructure and essential services.

Instead of addressing the shortage in supply of affordable housing, the B.C. government is once again addressing demand.

Ensuring a community has an adequate supply of sustainable affordable housing is a complex task that requires the use of many strategies, in this or any economy.

In some high - priced places such as New York City, housing advocates complain that flippers are reducing the supply of affordable housing and driving out low - income residents and sometimes the middle class.

«While this growth is encouraging, it's important for house hunters to keep in mind that builders have been focusing on the more pricey part of the market; affordable options are still in short supply.

In Florida, flipping has been revived by a steady supply of foreclosed housing and a demand for affordable housing that's making once - marginal neighborhoods near Tampa more appealing to buyers of renovated homes, says Christopher McCarty, director of the state Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

America could face a critical affordable housing shortage this decade without concerted action to increase supply levels, according to Franklin D. Raines, chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of home mortgage financing.

In 2002, the St. Joseph Community Land Trust was formed to increase the supply of affordable housing.

«We're finally seeing the record growth in renters slow down, but while the market has responded to rental housing needs for higher - income households, there are alarming trends that suggest a growing inability to supply housing that is affordable for middle - and working - class renters, let alone those with very low incomes.