Sentences with phrase «from building more houses»

Construction costs — Higher construction costs reduce developer profits and discourage them from building more houses.

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These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.
An accompanying press release from the university's media office explains the study comes from a «survey of more than 1,500 families with children living in rental high - rises built between 1950 and 1979,» a housing category that covers half of all rental units in metropolitan Toronto.
Godé worked alongside Arnault from the mid-1980s to build up LVMH, the world's largest luxury group, which today includes more than 70 fashion houses including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.
But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.
I have also heard from Comrades at our Communist News Network (CNN) and TASS (the AP), they along with the Revolutionaries at More Socialist Nonsense Broadcast Continually (MSNBC) have collected many rubles from the front and are building a statue of your likeness which will be place in the Gulag that will house the enemies of the state who watch FOX news, read Drudge and listen to the evil Capitalist propaganda on Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beckl.
I believe that God whispers to me that the Day Nursery I run from my house with my daughter is a church in His vision of Church — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned other than in 1:1 conversations where I share my faith (more than I ever did in Church).
We seek for strength, for peace, for a path through the forest, but Christians are people who maybe more than for anything else seek for Christ, and from the shabbiest little jerry - built meeting house in the middle of nowhere to the greatest cathedrals, all churches everywhere were erected by people like us in the wild hope that in them, if nowhere else, the one we seek might finally somehow be found.
According to C. S. Lewis, we learn more about God from Natural Law than from the universe in general, just as we discover more about people by listening to their conversations than by looking at the houses they build.
According to Lewis, we learn more about God from Natural Law than from the universe in general, just as we discover more about people by listening to their conversations than by looking at the houses they build.
Christmas Eve in New Mexico is a very special night steeped in tradition and probably no other image symbolizes the season more than the flickering lights from the brown paper bags called luminarias or farolitos, that line the walkways and outline buildings and houses throughout the state.
De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.
«From starting universal Pre-K to making our city safer to building housing that is truly affordable for working families, we have been building a fairer and more just City with the Mayor's progressive leadership.
The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninhousing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninHousing (MIH) rezoning plan.
The county's current police academy, housed at a 1950s - era school building in Massapequa Park, is leased from the school district at an annual cost of more than $ 700,000, Krumpter said.
Of the $ 5.9 billion from FEMA, $ 2.9 billion has been set aside for the New York City Housing Authority, which will improve more than 250 buildings inside 30 developments damaged by the storm.
Kyle Kimball, a Bloomberg appointee and one of the few top city officials to survive the changeover from a mayor focused on skyline - altering development projects to one more intent on building affordable housing outside Manhattan, is stepping down as head of the Economic Development Corp..
Recommendations range from a need to build more affordable housing, through to proposals for a «Help to Rent» scheme which could help more young people negotiate the challenges of saving for a deposit and costly monthly rents, as well as better mental health support and incentives to encourage companies to take on more young apprentices.
Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.
Mr Brown said this would achieve the aim of building communities as well as homes, but it has already prompted concern from housebuilders, who claim they are being effectively penalised for building more houses.
A proposal by de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle, emerging from a NYC Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.
Mr Khan distanced himself from Mr Corbyn during the campaign, pledging to freeze fares on the capital's transport network and build more affordable housing, but also promising to champion business and cut taxes on enterprise.
The IPPR's eye - catching idea is to pay all housing benefit and building grants to local authorities, hoping they can somehow do what the Treasury can't — switch funds from subsidising bad landlords into building more housing.
«I'm just amazed as to how bad it really seems — what you're doing and the impact it could have on this city,» Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, chairman of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, told a representative from Airbnb during more than an hour of sometimes combative testimony.
His 18 months running the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has been dominated by the fallout from the fatal Grenfell Tower fire, and pressing for more house building despite resistance from the Treasury.
Our recent City Space Race report highlights a dilemma that most growing cities are currently facing: they need to build more houses and offices, but regulations and local political pressures restrict them from expanding (particularly when it comes to green belt development).
Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.
«These are the same tired tricks from a hotel cartel willing to say just about anything to protect their ability to price gouge consumers and build more hotels at the expense of housing for New Yorkers,» he said.
The building houses both the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and 4,000 employees from more than 300 corporate partners.
The New York City Housing Authority «is moving forward» to use $ 500,000 from the city to install 15 cameras in the lobby of each building in the complex and create new infrastructure to allow for more cameras in the future, among other upgrades, a housing spokeswomaHousing Authority «is moving forward» to use $ 500,000 from the city to install 15 cameras in the lobby of each building in the complex and create new infrastructure to allow for more cameras in the future, among other upgrades, a housing spokeswomahousing spokeswoman said.
«What matters are results: crime is down 6 percent from last year's record lows, more affordable housing is being built than at any time in the past 40 years and the city has added more than 150,000 jobs since the mayor took office.»
Democrat Brian Moran, the former House delegate from Alexandria, raised roughly $ 755,000 since June and rustled up more than $ 2 million over the course of the year, but his campaign spent much of that war chest building their operation and finished 2008 with about $ 770,000 on hand.
«Crime is down, our economy is strong, affordable housing is being built, and more children are attending pre-K and graduating from high school than ever before,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.
A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.
Speaking to party members, Farron will set out Lib Dem policy to oppose the forced sell - off of housing association homes; lift the borrowing cap for local authorities so they can build more houses; ban developers from advertising properties to overseas investors before they advertise them in the UK; establish a Housing Investment Bank to boost home building; and lay the groundwork to build at least 10 new garden cities in Ehousing association homes; lift the borrowing cap for local authorities so they can build more houses; ban developers from advertising properties to overseas investors before they advertise them in the UK; establish a Housing Investment Bank to boost home building; and lay the groundwork to build at least 10 new garden cities in EHousing Investment Bank to boost home building; and lay the groundwork to build at least 10 new garden cities in England.
«From its inception to now, the proposed text amendment tells the story of Build it Back's dramatic progress under Mayor de Blasio's leadership: the idea for the amendment came out of a community - level meetings in Queens, it was produced with collaboration across agencies, and it is being passed to help homeowners who were stuck because of burdensome regulations so that they can begin rebuilding their homes and making their neighborhoods more resilient,» said AMY PETERSON, Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery.
But the Lib Dems will differentiate themselves from the Tories on the economy in two areas: fighting their coalition partners to make clear the rich shoulder more of the burden, and pressing for more growth measures by setting new targets for house building.
Affordable housing advocates believe a recent ruling from the State of New York ordering a Chinatown building owner to pay more than a million dollars to the former residents of 128 Hester Street has broad implications.
From left: Mo Vaughn, co-founder of Omni New York, Stuyvesant Town, and Rafael Cestero, Department of Housing Preservation and Development commissioner More rent - stabilized buildings...
The leafy, immaculately manicured courtyard where Ms. Olatoye, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced the new LED lamps today could not have differed more from the squalor residents described inside and behind the public housing buildings.
Liberal activists from organizations like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York shouted «slow it down» at Mr. de Blasio as he entered City Hall this morning, calling for him to pump the brakes on his plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods across the city to allow for more building density and, in turn, more affordable housing.
But while Venter's synthetic genome will be housed within an existing bacterial cell, other scientists are aiming for the even more ambitious target of building an entire living cell from the basic chemical ingredients.
If timber is imported from Australia, for example, to build a house, transporting it will significantly increase CO2 emissions; what is more, here it creates neither jobs nor wealth.
Housing in these neighborhoods is on average seven years older than elsewhere, and older buildings are more likely to harbor mold spores and fecal matter from rodent and insect infestations.
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More jails and prisons were built and strategically aligned to children's performance that suffered from parents who were divorcing, losing jobs, being disenfranchised, fighting drug wars, suffering from mental health challenges, affordable housing and transportation.
Guthrie himself had experienced an enormous dust cloud while in Pampa in 1937 and became obsessed with building a «house of earth» that would provide more protection from that element, unlike the wooden lean - tos that populated West Texas at the time.
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If the apartment is in a building that was converted from rental housing, no insurance may be provided under Section 234 (c) unless: (1) the potential co-buyer or buyer was a tenant of that rental housing; (2) the conversion occurred more than one year before the application for insurance; or (3) the conversion of the property is sponsored by a tenant's organization that represents a majority of the households in the project.
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