Sentences with phrase «government backing of the housing»

As President Vicki Cox Golder writes in her column this month, there are people today who seek to weaken government backing of the housing industry, and NAR can be expected to put the full force of its lobbying power against such forces.

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Held back by police, they were waiting some distance away near the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, when the second explosion went off just as people were entering the government office.

The White House is also likely to propose rolling backing some of the domestic spending increases in last month's government - wide funding bill.

Back then, the Bank of Canada slashed interest rates and the federal government launched a program to repurchase mortgages from the banks, which sent the housing market rallying.

By 335 votes to 244, the House of Lords backed an amendment to the government's key Brexit bill to give Parliament decision - making power on the outcome of negotiations with the EU — including the power to call off the divorce.

This is familiar ground for the SocGen strategist, who argued back in April that the British government could «concrete over the entire length and breadth of the UK and house prices would still rise» arguing that Britain doesn't actually have a shortage of housing, just a big imbalance in supply and demand.

The GOP took back the Senate and strengthened its hold in the House of Representatives, setting up two years of divided government leading up to the 2016 Presidential elections.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that even if Sanders has been contributing just 3 % of his salary per year for his entire time in both the House and the Senate — and has earned a modest 5 % annualized rate of return — he'd have accumulated almost half a million dollars by the end of 2015, thanks in part to the government's matching contributions.

Government - backed brokerage houses, which had in recent months raised billions of dollars by selling new shares, also suffered.

Established in 1973, when foreign governments hailed Canada as a world leader in freshwater science and protection, the library housed tens of thousands of reports, maps, charts and books, including material dating back to the 1880s.

Back in last winter, the beginning of the year, we had the new measures put in place by the government around mortgage rules, and we assessed that there would be some moderation in the housing market.

In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.

David H. Stevens, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs at a hearing titled, «Housing Finance Reform: Essential Elements of a Government Guarantee for Mortgage - Backed Secur

Stuart Gabriel, director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, said Obama's main achievement in housing was keeping Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - the two government - backed companies that underwrite an increasing number of mortgages - solvent during the downturn.

The two most common are: (1) home loans backed 100 percent by the government through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that include both an upfront and annual mortgage insurance premium (MIP); and (2) conventional loans, which are typically backed at least in part by private sources of capital, such as private MI.

Paulson mobilized the credit - creating power of the government's financial and housing agencies to support the price of mortgage securities — and the land valuations that back them.

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page called for this system because it puts spending decisions back in the hands of Parliament; and in fact, Minister Clement has already examined this proposal in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

The government allows you to take money out of your RRSP, without adding it to your tax bill, when you decide to buy a house or when you decide to go back to school.

This led to the government mooting the idea of not bringing the clause back through the House of Commons, which partial climb - down became formal policy the day after the Pope's words.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

May sits on the House pension committee and called for hearings to delve into the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, which manages taxpayer - backed pensions for thousands of local government employees.

We will provide new money to support the Local Enterprise Partnerships — and from April 2015 the Government will place more of the funding that currently goes to local transport, housing, skills and getting people back to work into a single pot that LEPs can bid for.

Back in 1911, the Parliament Act introduced by the Liberal government aimed to «substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution can not be immediately brought into operation».

Labour MPs can sit back and watch the carnage on the government side of the House, while fulfilling their manifesto commitment of voting for the general principle of Lords reform.

The first pillar of a national growth strategy ought to be a state - driven national house - building programme, enabling local authorities to borrow against their assets, and issuing government - backed bonds to raise finance through capital markets.

Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords.

Or if two thirds of MPs back a government motion in the House of Commons calling for an early election.

The government says it wants to give power back to the people, well letting voters decide on the door policy for the House of Commons seems the right place to start.

GDS tackled the overweening power of the huge firms that have dominated government IT in the past, and has given smaller departments and agencies the confidence to undertake some projects themselves, bringing expertise back in - house, embracing open source, and washing away some of the taint of failure from previous government IT projects.

Only a small proportion of # 80 billion received by the government in housing tax receipts has gone back into the sector, a charity claims today.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

The brigade of insurgent GOP candidates backed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon showed signs of disunity Wednesday after controversial remarks Bannon made for a book about links between the Russian government and some members of President Donald Trump's campaign team.

Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship between the private sector and consultants.

I am writing to urge that the government back Waheed Alli's excellent reasoned amendment to the Equality Bill, which I understand is to be tabled in the House of Lords on March 2nd.

It's a ratcheting up of rhetoric by Cuomo, who has vowed to help unseat Republican House lawmakers in New York who backed Obamacare repeal efforts, namely a provision that would shift the burden of Medicaid spending from county governments to the state.

The government has suffered a second Brexit defeat in the House of Lords as peers backed, by 366 votes to 268, calls for a «meaningful» parliamentary vote on the final terms of withdrawal.

News that David Cameron may be unable to persuade almost half of his «non-payroll» MPs to back the government's bill for Lords reform may signal the latest defeat in the 100 - year war to establish the «popular» principle for membership of the House of Lords that was forecast in the 1911 legislation.

Back in July, I was appointed to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament that was tasked with scrutinising the Government's draft House of Lords Reform Bill.

Mr Bercow should build on this work and leave a legacy which will survive the end of coalition government and give backbenchers enduring influence when the House falls back into the control of a single party.

Trump raised the possibility of a government shutdown ahead of a meeting with Democrats for a second consecutive week, even as tensions on Capitol Hill appeared to diminish after hard - line House conservatives backed off plans to oppose a short - term stopgap.

«The enforcement of civil rights in the education, housing, and labor departments of state government has taken a back seat to other missions assigned to these departments,» Hawkins said.

But in a discussion about a government green paper on privilege, two successive clerks of the House, backed by the leader of the Commons, Andrew Lansley, killed the idea of giving the lay members a vote.

For the benefit of Labour Members, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary, the Prime Minister and Government Back Benchers, will the Chancellor tell the House what is today's policy on child benefit?»

He said the government also backed e-petitions, which would allow members of the public to suggest topics for MPs to debate and said voters would get the right to recall MPs guilty of financial impropriety, where the House of Commons had refused to act.

On Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released automated phone calls directed at ten incumbent House members who voted for the stimulus and against the GOP - backed bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.

In August 2016, in response to a request by the Times Union, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, Robert Freeman, said in an advisory opinion that Cuomo's office and the state department of Housing and Community Renewal should not hold back from release otherwise public documents based merely on the contention that they might relate to the federal probe of upstate development deals.

He says the closure of the nursing homes would be a break in a tradition that dates back to colonial days, when local governments provided alms houses and early hospitals for the needy.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»

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.

To that end, de Blasio said taking back the U.S. House of Representatives is his top national priority, a change that would have monumental implications for the city and state and the resources they receive from the federal government.