Sentences with phrase «homes than the private sector»
«Between the late 1940s and late 1950s councils built more homes than the private sector.
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Having spent more than 20 years as a business economist working in the private sector before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2007, I feel right at home here today.
The exception is homeowners who were forced to purchase taxpayer - backed mortgage default insurance from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC), or its main private sector rival Genworth Canada, because they put down less than 20 per cent of their home's value.
In addition, only a half of Germans own their own homes with the rest enjoying a well - regulated private rental sector offering much better quality and security than the UK.
Elected on the back of a pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year, housing minister Harold Macmillan soon met and exceeded these targets, largely as the result of public sector rather than private sector construction.
While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).
When 4th graders themselves were asked how often a language other than English was spoken at home, 18 percent in the public sector replied «all or most of the time» as did 12 percent in the private sector.
To avoid undercounting those students in the private sector with language difficulties, we substitute for the LEP indicator the students» own reports of the frequency that a language other than English was spoken in their home.
The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) is a federally insured reverse mortgage that is generally less expensive than private - sector reverse mortgages, though you typically are charged mortgage insurance premiums.
A plan to create more than 10,000 jobs in the UK construction industry by insulating homes in the private and public sectors will be announced by Alistair Darling in today's pre-budget report, The Guardian reports.
Private sector landlords built homes for more than nine million Canadians, and relatively affordable housing to a subset of more than three million.
Since I took office, I've taken action that — combined with private - sector efforts my administration helped catalyze — enabled more than 5 million home owners to get mortgage modifications, while expanding access to refinancing and targeting investments in the communities hardest - hit by the housing crisis.
More than 14 million renters live in single - family homes in the U.S., but over the past year the sector has received much more attention from private - equity funds and other institutional investors looking to build large pools of rental homes by purchasing foreclosures and other distressed properties at fire - sale prices.