Sentences with phrase «for housing policy»

The continuing economic recovery has improved housing affordability for low - and moderate - income working households, but housing costs are still a significant burden, especially to renters, according to a new report released today by the Center for Housing Policy, the research division of the National Housing Conference.

«The increase in renter incomes is certainly positive, but we don't know what the future will bring,» says Janet Viveiros, Center for Housing Policy research associate and lead author on the report.

In the latest edition of Paycheck to Paycheck, Center for Housing Policy (CHP) researchers draw on the latest data from the first quarter of 2013 to reveal the gap between wages and the costs of housing, both rental and owned, in 207 U.S. metro areas for workers in occupations central to the summer vacations Americans hope to squeeze in before school starts.

The Center for Housing Policy tracks wage information for 74 occupations and compares it to the cost of housing — for owning and renting — in more than 200 metro areas.

«If we look at basic demographics, the population of those ages 65 and up will increase 120 percent between 2012 and 2015,» says Jeffrey Lubell, executive director of the Center for Housing Policy (CHP).

by the Center for Housing Policy, 20 percent of those ages 65 to 74 are spending more than half of their income on housing.

In fact, one in seven households — 14.4 million families — face critical housing needs, according to the National Housing Conference's research arm, the Center for Housing Policy.

I learned this morning through a HousingWire article that the Center for Housing Policy, the Urban Institute, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation conducted an extensive report on foreclosure and delinquency in 366 metropolitan areas in the United States.

Neil O'Brien is Director of Policy Exchange, which today publishes Making Housing Affordable: A new vision for housing policy.

I support the Land Bank as an important tool for a housing policy aimed at decreasing concentrated poverty, increasing affordable housing, and expanding the property tax base.

The review, to be headed by Julie Rugg and David Rhodes from the Centre for Housing Policy at York University, will look at the quality of houses in the private sector and who is renting them.

A separate analysis by the Center for Housing Policy finds that despite recent declines in home prices, police officers and elementary school teachers still don't earn enough to buy a typical house in two out of five metro areas.

Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick Centre for Housing Policy, University of York Research designed to provide a robust account of the nature and patterns of Multiple Exclusion Homelessness across the UK.

Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick Centre for Housing Policy, University of York Tel: [phone] email: [email protected]

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If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

Its policy of maintaining extremely low interest rates has been, in large part, responsible for fueling the current mania for housing.

At the provincial level, land - restriction policies such as the Agricultural Land Reserve around Vancouver or the greenbelt that surrounds Toronto need to be seen as deliberate efforts to limit the space available for new housing.

The Trump Administration is staring down a half - dozen deadlines on trade policy that will create a moment of truth for the White House.

While in - house, on the job training, is important for your own policies and procedures, don't rule out external training.

According to a report from Toronto - based social policy group the Wellesley Institute, «rooming houses are one of the most affordable private - market housing options for low - income tenants....

Ned Price, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, denied that US policy on Syria was a part of the Iran nuclear talks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the smoke - free policy will save housing agencies $ 153 million every year in repairs, preventable fires and health care costs.

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

Home sales across the country have dropped in the wake of several government policy measures, including a stress test for home buyers with a down payment of more than 20 per cent, that were implemented to cool the country's hot housing market.

«If the BOJ were to ease policy, it would therefore be most natural for it to increase government debt purchases and target longer - dated bonds,» Kuroda said in a confirmation hearing in the lower house of parliament.

«Unfortunately, for the many vulnerable House Republicans that Paul Ryan is abandoning, his historically unpopular and failed policies will hang over their reelections like a dark cloud,» Law added.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

During his White House tenure, Gorka reportedly gained the favor of President Trump for his vigorous defenses of the administration's immigration and counterterrorism policies on television.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

But for those thinking about housing tax policy, there are other possibilities.

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The most likely culprit, according to the respondents, is the U.S. Congress for allowing lax mortgage policies that led to the housing boom and subsequent bust.

Dana W. White, the main spokeswoman for Mattis, issued a two - sentence statement saying Mattis had received White House guidance on transgender policy, adding, «More information will be forthcoming.»

In the letter, Cummings called for all documents and communications related to Flynn's and Kushner's security clearances; Kushner's application; White House officials who have had to resign or were fired; policies related to how the White House handles the suspension of security clearances; and contacts between Yates and White House counsel Donald McGahn about Flynn.

There's no one universal model for these policies, but they generally involve one of two things: a requirement that developers either make a certain percentage of their housing units available at below - market rates, or that has them pay a fee into a fund for affordable housing.

As far as the goal of reducing displacement, the Furman Center points to strategies such as rent regulation programs, or policies that give low - income families prioritized preference for subsidized housing as helpful.

It said short - term housing policies should be improved to guide a «soft landing» for the property market.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking in 1971 the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war, in the early 1960s was an adviser to the Air Force and White House on nuclear policy.

But people familiar with the deliberations say Williams» monetary policy expertise became more important, because of the failure of the White House to nominate a vice chairman for the Federal Reserve.

The speech prompted a response from the White House that left unclear whether Trump — who had tweeted that Tillerson was «wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man» (using a mocking nickname for North Korea's Kim Jong Un)-- had approved the shift in policy.

Yet, six months after the resignation of Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, a leading monetary policy expert, and two months after Senate confirmation of Powell, the White House has yet to put forward a nominee for vice chairman.

Naspers is a Cape Town - based company with a dark history as the publishing house that for a long time supported South Africa's racist National Party and its Apartheid policy (Naspers has since apologized for its role in that era).

In preparation for testimony before the House of Commons finance committee in Ottawa on March 10, I pulled together some thoughts on three aspects of the impact of the oil - price crash on oil sands projects and policies, and I thought I'd share them with you here over this and the next couple of posts.

The Trump Administration is staring down a half - dozen deadlines on trade policy that will create a moment of truth for the White House, which has so far opted for long - term investigations and renegotiations over immediate challenges to the status quo.

Brad Close, the NFIB's director of public policy in the House, said it was a straightforward piece of legislation to address the needs of entrepreneurs who use their personal credit cards for business.

Until recently, he has focused on more tangential issues for the Fed — like the regulation of scandal - ridden Libor interest rates, financial innovation, and housing policy.

«Larry Kudlow was offered, and accepted, the position of Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council,» Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, said in a statement Wednesday.

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.