Sentences with phrase «have housing shortages»

«We have a housing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit housing.

One particular thing to note is that we don't really have a housing shortage - what we have is a shortage of housing in the areas...

Bill Watt, a homebuilder and design consultant, said the new energy provisions on top of other state building requirements are making houses too expensive in a state that already has a housing shortage.

«We'd heard our community had a housing shortage, and we were also hearing that everything on the market was crap,» recalls Troy.

While he said there might be a bit of a slowdown coming, he told attendees he sees no need for concern, for one big reason: «We have a housing shortage,» he said.

A new Trulia report out this week contends that America has a housing shortage.

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Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

The Future Spaces Foundation (FSF) has just published a report on the potential that «garden cities» might have in fighting the current shortage of houses in Britain.

According to the foundation, solving the housing shortage of London alone would require up to 67 new garden cities of 30,000 people each.

(Currently, there is a shortage of Valeant's Nitropress, a heart drug that is off - patent but has no generic version — despite the company having tripled the drug's price «overnight» last year, according to the House committee.)

«If there really was a shortage of housing in the UK, rents like house prices, would be rising well in excess of the CPI, whereas they have broadly risen in line over the last ten years.»

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.

Even the refugees who have had their status approved are still staying in accommodation supposed to be for newcomers due to a housing shortage, Reuters reports.

Driving the cross-traffic has been California's housing shortage, the worst in the country.

Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and millennials «who are greater in number than even the baby boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»

Champion founder and CEO Bob Champion said the area had a «shortage of luxury rental housing,» CoStar reported.

As with many cities across California, Oakland has experienced a shortage of supply within the local housing market.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

Many California cities have had a shortage of housing supply in recent years, creating fierce competition among home buyers and driving prices north at a rapid pace.

Christians have plenty of access to broadcasting (TV, radio, Internet, news outlets); there is no shortage of houses of worship; Christmas is a national holiday.

Central planning and the lack of incentive have produced agricultural shortfalls, industrial mismanagement, shoddy products, permanent shortages in housing and consumer goods, economic collapse staved off only by Western credit, and a shockingly low standard of living in what are supposed to be modern industrial nations.

No doubt these House Republicans have been told by friendly business owners and their lobbyists that there is a shortage of low - skill workers and that the current pool of low - skill workers can't cut it.

Tate is a house call waiting to happen every time he touches the ball, and the Boilermakers have no shortage of offensive tricks up their sleeve.

At my house there is never a shortage of green material (also known as wet or nitrogen - rich matter)-- orange peels, corn husks, dinner food scraps, yard waste, etc. — for my compost bin, but when it comes to finding brown (also known as dry or carbon - rich) material, in the past I've often ended up coming up short.

They've survived single parenthood, housing shortages and a devastating fire to build what they have today: Ocupação Esperança, a space in São Paulo where women are in charge and the poor are protected

City officials and real estate brokers in Western Springs, Clarendon Hills, Glen Ellyn and Wheaton report that the rush to create new construction sites in older towns has led to teardown housing as well as other antidotes to the land shortage.

The prime minister promised to put the chronic shortage of affordable housing in Britain at the top of his political agenda and announced the bill, saying it would aim to put the property ladder «within the reach not just of the few but the many».

Waltham Forest Council says they are forced to house people outside of the capital because shifts in the housing market and changes to benefits have led to an acute shortage of available properties.

A new wave of garden cities is needed to solve Britain's housing shortage and save the countryside from urban sprawl, Nick Clegg has said.

A combination of soaring rents, cuts to benefits, and a shortage of social housing has created a crisis in affordable housing in the capital.

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The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

Pumping up the housing market has been the escape route of choice for economically besieged Tory chancellors over decades, a habit that left Britain with chronic housing shortages and an economy deeply unbalanced.

They comply with the view that the welfare state has been made unsustainable by the workshy, that migrants are responsible for housing shortages and low pay, and that the only thing Labour can offer is some palliative relief to the inescapable realities of the world.

This stems from the government belief the lack of affordable housing has been caused by a shortage of housing stock.

With rising house prices and a shortage of well - priced properties, affordable housing has rapidly changed from a social to political issue.

«Our country has a desperate shortage of housing.

What is clear is that we have a chronic shortage of housing, social and private, with roots going back many years across both governing parties.

For years, residents have voiced concern about the shortage of affordable housing options in Binghamton.

Just as in the UK, there are shortages of properties available in Stockholm, but of course the rent caps do not cause these shortages, just as not having rent caps in the UK doesn't result in a great increase in the supply of high - quality rental housing at reasonable cost.

Housing stock had deteriorated and not kept up with population growth due to material shortages during wartime.

After much talk, the two sides had worked out a compromise on two zoning proposals to force the development of affordable housing in a city with no shortage of development.

Similarly, Yvette has a laudable pledge that Britain should build 300,000 new homes every year to tackle the country's chronic housing shortage.

The Labour leader was right, for example, to emphasise the need to boost research and development, improve skill levels and invest in transport while his pledge to allow councils to borrow to build more homes would help unlock more of the funding they need to address housing shortages.

A shortage of supportive housing has helped drive homelessness for single adults to record highs, the Coalition for the Homeless says in a new report.

«It's the housing shortage that has created this crisis, and the only way to escape it for good is for the next government to build the affordable homes we so desperately need.»

He said it was a «crime» that 300,000 properties had been vacant for more than six months, equivalent to two years» new housing supply, at a time of a chronic housing shortage.

«If selected as host, the Games would also spur regional development and investment that will address community challenges, such as the shortage of workforce housing, parking and public transportation,» Randall said in a statement.

Even people who are reasonably comfortable have children or nieces and nephews who are being exploited on zero hours contracts, and can't leave their childhood home because of the shortage of affordable housing.

To remedy the housing shortage, Khrushchev had embarked on a massive national construction binge, which, like Stalin's oppressive overhaul of Moscow's downtown districts, was leaving its own unique architectural imprint on the city's outer rings.