Sentences with phrase «house than an apartment»

If you own, moving can mean you get to take money with you because it's easier to sell a house than an apartment.

When I hear things new to me, I bark to sound the alert — and my hearing is really good, which means I would do better in a house than an apartment.

Not exact matches

The company says it has more than 1.5 million listings - homes, apartments, guest rooms, even houseboats and tree houses - in more than 34,000 cities in 190 countries.

Riverside's above - average cost of living is largely driven by housing, but entrepreneurs looking to rent a small apartment won't pay much more than the national average.

To date, more than 5.3 million Chinese travelers have booked a room, apartment, or house through Airbnb's platform, which also has more than 80,000 domestic listings.

Buffett, notoriously thrifty, paid even less than the estimate for housing, living on the sixth floor of an apartment building across the street from the university.

With median rent on a one - bedroom apartment hovering around $ 3,000 and prices in nearby Oakland, California, climbing, area residents routinely put more than half their take - home incomes toward housing.

Home prices have increased 250 % since 1980 and Millennials under 25 are spending 7.7 % more of their wallet on housing than the Boomer generation did at that age.3 As a result, the number of non-married people under 35 sharing a home or apartment has grown.

Whether you are renting a 5,000 - square - foot house or a 500 - square - foot studio apartment, your valuables might be worth more than you think.

And while an apartment or townhouse in Manhattan or central London is likely to cost more in dollars or pounds, taking into account the lower incomes Torontonians make, housing is actually less affordable here than in New York and on par with central London.

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.

That's because returns on retail tend to be significantly higher than returns on apartments, especially on lower floors, where the retail is housed.

«The trend we've been seeing... shows apartment values are weaker than house values,» he told The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday.

The Commerce Department stated that there were more new apartments and single - family houses made than at any point over the last four years.

Co-sponsoring Eggman's bill was the California Solar Energy Industries Association, which notes the challenge of installing solar panels on any multi-unit apartment building is far greater than on a single - family home, especially for a building housing low - income tenants.

Many of us have spent the past months finding similarities between Francis of Assisi and Francis of Buenos Aires, who took up residence in a guest house in Vatican City rather than the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.

Now Partnership is working with the mayor's office and other concerned groups on a more ambitious plan: rehabilitation of more than 1,000 city - owned apartments to provide permanent housing for almost 4,000 homeless families and individuals.

The average «poor» American lives in a larger house or apartment, eats far more meat, and is more likely to have a car and dishwasher than is the average West European.

At this point, I've lived in 6 states (some of those states more than once... moved back and forth), attended countless schools as a child, and lived in almost 20 different houses / apartments / townhouses.

My New York apartment had more closets and storage space than my suburban London house.

I moved out of my parents house to go to university when I was seventeen and since then I've lived in a few different cities and have had many different apartments and roommates, but nothing has felt more like a real home than the house we shared in the mountains.

Neither of us would trade our house for that apartment back in DC, but there are more than a couple things about it that look awfully good these days.

Even more than moving from a one - bedroom apartment to a house probably four times the size, a baby marks a drastic change in the material needs of life.

More than two years after de Blasio announced an ambitious plan to create 15,000 supportive - housing apartments, only a few hundred are up and running, the city's homelessness czar said.

At 10:30 a.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will visit tenants at NYCHA's Albany Houses in Crown Heights with gubernatorial candidate and actress Cynthia Nixon, spotlighting chronic issues facing public housing in Brooklyn, a borough that is home to 99 developments with more than 58,000 apartments, 1414 Bergen St.

More than 143,000, or 80 percent, of New York City's 175,000 public housing apartments have been without heat or hot water at times this winter, city officials said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

Local apartment rents increased, the eviction rate was a bit higher than the state average and about 14 percent of Manchester's housing was labeled affordable last year, according to a recent report from the town planning department.

In 2016, HCR set a record for the third year in a row, financing the creation or preservation of more than 17,000 affordable homes and apartments, creating nearly 2,000 homeownership opportunities for first - time homebuyers, and was once again the # 1 affordable housing bond issuer in the nation with $ 2.8 billion issued.

«Liberty Gardens Apartments will provide more affordable family housing for Rome residents, redevelop a distressed public housing complex for the first time in its more than 60 - year history, and provide excellent community and recreation facilities for residents,» said Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner & CEO of New York State Homes & Community Renewal.

Webster Green Apartments is a forward - looking state - of - the - art sustainable development that expands affordable housing opportunities for the Bronx and will help more than 80 New Yorkers find a safe haven they can call home.»

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio today laid out a 10 - year plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable apartments across all five boroughs — enough housing to serve more than a half - million New Yorkers.

The Rent Guidelines Board says most tenants in rent - stabilized apartments spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, which is the federal standard for affordable housing.

The Rochester Avenue Apartments brings an innovative supportive housing development and more than a dozen new jobs to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

The state invested more than $ 12.2 million to finance the Doe Fund's development of Webster Green Apartments, including: a $ 1.2 million allocation of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and a $ 4.5 million Medicaid Redesign Team program loan through HCR; $ 6.5 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program funds through OTDA; and a $ 159,000 New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency grant.

From 1994 to the present day, more than 238,000 apartments were removed from the rent regulation system, leaving middle class New Yorkers with fewer affordable housing options.

He was more than overjoyed and decided to leave the house that night after telling his mum, he wanted to go stay with a friend so there can be enough space for his other siblings in the chamber and hall apartment.

It has been more than two years since the Ethics Committee began looking into a litany of potential offenses, including Rangel's fundraising, his living arrangements in rent - controlled apartments, his failure to report rental income from properties the Dominican Republic and his use of a House parking spot for vehicle storage.

She also cited a report from 2014 in which the city inspected 36 apartments of the 177,666 apartments in the public housing system, or less than 1 percent of units, and found one lead paint hazard.

The head of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its earlyHousing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its earlyhousing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early years.

It's a downstate, urban community on the border of the Bronx,» adding, «the cost of housing is slightly more for a two - bedroom apartment in Yonkers than in the Bronx.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

More than a month after New York City began offering free lead testing to nearly 3,000 children living in public housing apartments in the wake of a lead - paint scare, only 73 children have been tested under the initiative, city officials said.

REAL ESTATE — «Stringer: NYCHA apartments left vacant for years,» by Capital's Kelly Weill: «Low - income apartments run by the New York City Housing Authority are in high demand, with more than 270,000 applicants on the authority's waiting list.

Entitled, «The New Housing Emergency,» the report (in full below) says loopholes in the city's current rent - stabilization rules — like vacancy decontrol and rent increases due to renovations — result in the loss of more than 10,000 rent - regulated apartments per year.

More about his affordable housing plan: Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with the HCR Office of Rent Administration's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants, and HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 40,000 New York City apartments to rent regulation.

After Weiner called for $ 500 - per - month «efficiency» apartments to spur affordable housing, McDonald said he boasted better morals than than the disgraced former congressman.

NEW YORK — A bombshell report released Monday depicts the lead problem inside New York City Housing Authority apartments as far worse than once thought.

One audit uncovered that 80 apartments in NYCHA's housing stock remained vacant for more than 10 years.