Sentences with phrase «house built this year»

The other day I received this note: «We had a house built this year and the builder would not put in the white cabinets I have always wanted, its a cookie cutter builder who just wasn't offering that in our neighborhood.

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The following year, she contributed to the YWCA to build the Elm Centre, an affordable housing complex for women in downtown Toronto.

According to Marcus, a 21 - year - old occupant of the Covenant House, «Covenant House is like a foundation because you can build something for yourself, you have the time and the resources to make it happen.»

She's still building name recognition outside the world of tech and, with one House run behind her (she lost), the 40 - year - old has time to continue building her political career.

The proposal, an employee hours tax that would transition to a payroll tax in 2021, would generate $ 75 million per year for Seattle, most of which would go to building affordable housing.

Consider the case of New Ordos, a city the government of Inner Mongolia built from scratch in just five years to house 100,000 people.

Having spent much of his career developing housing for seniors, the 68 - year - old is building something different for his own retirement, a waterfront dream home on 10 acres.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

So in June 2015, the couple made another concession to inventions: They left Manhattan, where they'd lived for 22 years, and moved upstate to a house they built as a future retirement home.

When the new Parliament started in 2010, the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit recommended that almost 300,000 new houses should be built every year until 2031, totaling almost 6 million houses.

However, sales of building materials fell by the most in a year, a potentially worrying signal from the housing market.

Your in - house team can help, but, as often as not, the thing that's busted is something they've built in the first place and have been bandaging rather than rebuilding for years -(See Build a Bridge Over Your Old Code, Not a Band - Aid).

The house reportedly took seven years to build and cost $ 63 million.

«We are already seeing steady improvements in the existing housing market where unsold inventory is drying up,» says Plunkett, noting that new building permits were up 34.3 % in February 2012 over a year ago.

My father had a 10 - year plan in mind the day he purchased seven acres to house the building and nursery of Lindenmayer Landscapes outside of Herkimer, N.Y..

In the summer after his sophomore year, Zuckerberg left Harvard for a rented house in Silicon Valley to build Facebook, expanding it to other campuses and then across the globe with venture funding from Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal.

In China, a company named Winsun this year said it built 10 3 - D printed houses in just one day.

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

Six years later, Apple is ready to open the house that Steve intended to build.

In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.

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.

When Scott Sundberg and his wife, Caroline, started building a new house in the Gulf Coast city of Pass Christian, Miss., eight years ago, they got a lot of strange looks.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built — the famous headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in fact — certainly reads as though its author spent the years since sharpening his knife.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built reads as though its author spent years sharpening his knife.

A historic footing: When the tower complex was built, Scotiabank incorporated its original 27 - storey head office at 44 King Street West into the building — and continued to operate the branch housed within it — even though that extended the project's time frame from three years to eight.

The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.

Just last year Edmonton Oiler's owner, Daryl Katz, announced the development of the Stantec building — a 62 - storey mixed use building that will house 1,700 employees of Stantec engineering, planning and architecture firm, as well as 33 floors of residential condo units.

Pierson says the layoffs were part of a shift away from having an in - house brand agency, which the company had been building in recent years.

People borrow for 10 years or 30 years to fund long - term capital projects, like to build a house or maybe a factory.

«After 5 years of exploration, Xiaozhu pioneered house - sharing business model in China and created a new bilateral market from ground up by building an entire service system that consists of cleaning and photography services,» said Kelvin.

And while slower price growth suggests Canada is already «moving towards a more balanced housing market,» today's prices are still, in the bank's view, «elevated» after «a 10 - year build - up.»

The Liberal platform also promised a number of new tax expenditures, including the Teacher's Tax Benefit, the Building Trades Equipment Tax Benefit, and the GST rebate for new rental housing construction ($ 760 million over four years).

Besides partnering with the families who need house repairs, Habitat Highlands County also plans to build 40 homes over the next four years.

(Four years later, social housing built from shipping containers does arise in the Downtown Eastside, planners crediting Paulsen's series.)

I've was in the advertising business for many moons before joining BitTorrent and the in - house agency we built here in the last two years is by far and away the most talented and driven group of creatives and technologists I have ever worked with.

Barely a quarter as many houses were built in 2009 as four years before.

Last year it opened a $ 16 million optical lab dedicated to building its own glasses in - house.

Furthermore, having surveyed some 70 housebuilders that collectively built more than 75 per cent of all new housing in England in 2015/16, over half of respondents expect their organisation to build more homes in the next year.

Accordingly, a substantial pool of undrawn commitments built up over the last few months of 1999 and the beginning of this year, peaking at a level equivalent to just under 8 per cent of housing credit.

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

We see our parents with their houses and fancy cars and don't realize the years it took for them to build that kind of wealth.

I built my house when I was 23 and paid cash for it, so I've been living rent / mortgage free for the last 7 years.

Cambridge House International has been building flagship events in the junior mining industry for 25 years.

According to data from Trulia, San Francisco out - built every other major housing market in the U.S. last year — at least compared to its historical average.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

Cambridge House International has been building flagship must - attend events in the junior mining industry for 25 years.

«Given all the pent - up demand that's certainly built up over the past couple years, housing still has a ways to go.»

House approvals are well below the average levels observed over the past couple of years, and the Housing Industry Association series of new home sales — which are commitments to build — is below levels of a year ago.

This pattern is expected to be reversed somewhat over the second half of the year, as activity in the house - building sector begins to pick up and growth moderates in the medium - density sector.

The number of building approvals for detached houses has remained at a high level in recent months, following the sharp rise recorded around the middle of the year (Graph 30).