Sentences with phrase «housing affordability crisis»

In the long run, she says, the program will aid Portland's housing affordability crisis by lowering the monthly costs to maintain a home.

«For many low - income families, the rental housing affordability crisis is like a game of musical chairs in which there is never a chair left for them.»

April 24 - Real estate developers in British Columbia will soon be required to collect and report information on people buying and flipping condo presale units, as the province ramps up its crackdown on tax fraud amid an escalating housing affordability crisis.

VICTORIA — Christy Clark spent years denying that B.C.'s housing affordability crisis even exists, and now she's introducing new legislation to get rid of her bad headlines, say New Democrats.

The concept for the MHI Urban Design Demonstration Project called for MHI, the national trade association for the manufactured housing industry, to work closely with local government officials, neighborhood groups, and residential developers in bringing this new resource to urban areas, which are suffering from an unprecedented housing affordability crisis.

During the same period, millennial first - time homebuyers, despite reports of the nationwide housing affordability crisis, increased their housing confidence score from 57.1 to 59.1 percent (up 2.0 points).

Growth in the Gap between the Number of Low - Income Renters and the Supply of Affordable Units «For many low - income families, the rental housing affordability crisis is like a game of musical chairs in which there is never a chair left for them,» said Chris Herbert, Research Director at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

«Politicians and tenants» groups have declared a housing affordability crisis — again — and have called for a tax on speculators» profits to cool down the frenzy.»

Green Party leader Andrew Weaver labeled it a «Band - aid solution» to the housing affordability crisis.

One paradox of the housing affordability crisis in the United States is that one of the most popular ways to create affordable housing is to tax new housing.

A vacancy fee wouldn't solve the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver by itself — doing that would require serious renewed public investment in social housing, to start with.

Clark was heavily criticized by opponents and the media for doing too little, too late to tax and regulate the real estate industry amid a housing affordability crisis.

Greater Vancouver is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis.

There is no silver bullet solution to Greater Vancouver's housing affordability crisis.

«Answers to the housing affordability crisis won't come without hard action, and this task force is just one part of the action we need to take.

VANCOUVER — The Christy Clark government is holding a summer sitting of the legislature to do the bare minimum to make bad headlines go away about the housing affordability crisis, while being careful to not anger their top donors.

There's a lot of talk about the housing affordability crisis faced by Millennial home buyers.

Moving public servants from the cities to the bush could help alleviate Australia's housing affordability crisis, Barnaby Joyce says.

«The Comptroller is once again using Airbnb as a scapegoat for a housing affordability crisis that has been growing for decades,» said AirDNA CEO Scott Shatford, who is described as an «Airbnb entrepreneur» in his bio.

Hawkins said the housing affordability crisis reaches well into the upper - middle - class in New York's cities.

This underscores the urgency of state policymakers taking steps to address our housing affordability crisis.

There's a lot of talk about the housing affordability crisis faced by Millennial home buyers.

So, I'm still not convinced that focusing on rental housing will help with our nation's housing affordability crisis.

To address these problems, Vancity's report provided 16 tangible ideas on how to alleviate the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver.

One final solution that could help Vancouver's housing affordability crisis is to dictate the type of new housing stock that can be built in the city.

As the housing affordability crisis looms as the next big issue for our national housing market, an increasing number of would - be homebuyers are finding themselves unable to afford the cost of owning their own homes.

De Jong says he spoke with Mayor Gregor Robertson before the announcement and believes he is pleased with the province's efforts to respond quickly to the housing affordability crisis.

The B.C. government announced Thursday their new program designed to help address the housing affordability crisis that has spread across many parts of our province.

As I am sure you are well aware, there is a housing affordability crisis in Oregon.

However, in Seattle, rising home prices has actually led to a housing affordability crisis.

Now, according to The News Tribune, the housing affordability crisis is expanding beyond the borders of Seattle and creeping into the neighboring suburbs as well.

As we all know by now, many booming urban cities are facing a housing affordability crisis.

The MIAMI REALTORS ® are tackling the housing affordability crisis by developing a container house prototype in the City of South Miami.