Sentences with phrase «increase house building»

In the longer - term, the much anticipated report by Sir Michael Lyons will outline the policy options available in all areas to increase house building.

The government claims that these new proposals will increase house building and reduced council house waiting lists, by replacing each social unit sold.

We will create more good jobs and build a stronger and more balanced recovery by devolving economic power to Britain's towns and cities, boosting vocational education, getting young people into work, cutting business rates, introducing a British Investment Bank and increasing house building to at least 200,000 a year.

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Residential building groups need to admit that the «first home buyer» scheme was subjected to abuse and artificially increased house prices.

Data from the Housing Industry Association has shown residential construction already beginning to increase in WA, with new home builds increasing by just over 8 per cent in the September quarter.

Experts have suggested building public housing in low - poverty areas instead of high - poverty areas, which would spur poorer families to move to better neighborhoods and increase their chances of success.

Atlanta and Chicago, big cities that have made it relatively easy to build new housing in recent decades, would see only a small rent increase if they won the Amazon project.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

And most of all, don't increase those Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordable units.

It must overcome NIMBYism by increasing density and building more housing, especially more affordable rental housing.

As a smaller metro, Raleigh would experience the largest increase in rents from Amazon HQ2, because it will be unable to build enough housing to sustain such a large increase in workers.

We predict rent increases in Baltimore if Amazon HQ2 is based there, due to the city's inability to build enough housing and an expected increase in high - wage workers.

These prices continue to rise more rapidly than building - materials prices, suggesting that profit margins and / or labour costs in the residential construction sector have increased in response to the recent strength in demand for residential construction work and the rise in prices of established houses.

Strong demand in the housing sector fuelled increases in building materials prices in the June quarter, with the increase most noticeable in Sydney.

The prices of materials used in house building increased sharply in the September quarter, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne.

The number of building approvals for detached houses has increased strongly over the past couple of months, to be around the peak reached in the second half of 2002 (Graph 23).

In the context of post-secondary education, the Party promises to reduce tuition fees to 1999 - 2000 levels and fully fund a tuition freeze thereafter; reduce student loan interest rates; increase the availability of post-secondary and trade spaces in the province; and support initiatives to build additional student housing.

In particular, ongoing strength in the construction sector has led to significant increases in the cost of building materials and in house purchase costs.

Further increases in building approvals are suggested by data on lending for housing, which have also been trending upwards, although the monthly figures have been quite volatile (Graph 9).

To date, the rate of growth in building approvals looks more like the moderately paced upturn in housing in the early 1990s, than the extremely rapid increases of the late 1980s cycle.

An additional consideration in this environment was the risk to the economy posed by the build - up of household debt and the associated increases in house prices.

As detailed in a Fortune article («Higher Taxes That Promote Development,» August 8, 1983), housing and downtown buildings increased in numbers and dollar value.

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

As the Wilmette Park District works on its master plan for the lakefront, ideas include increasing the size of the popular Lakeview Center and building a new structure to replace the aging beach house at Gillson Park.

Addressing MPs yesterday, Mr Brown said the country needed to increase the number of new house building projects, but said Conservative local authorities first had to approve the plans.

What he doesn't always go on to say is that 90 % of that land is occupied by tracks and stations which can never be built upon, meaning the mayor's real ability to radically increase housing supply is much more limited.

To increase residential density, Kampala can learn from Addis Ababa, where the government supported the building of low - cost five - storey housing units.

Therefore it's no surprise that coming up with creative policies to increase housing supply is not top of Cameron's agenda; instead he prefers to deal in empty words and promises to «get Britain building».

This is expected to lead to private house starts increasing 19.0 % in 2013 and 15.0 % in 2014, albeit from historic low levels of house building.

As he says, he single - handedly pushed GFI to increase the amount of affordable housing they were going to build.

At an earlier community forum, Johnson took credit for having forced the developer to increase the level of affordable housing to be built from 20 % to 26 %.

And landlords will now only be able to increase rent for individual apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.

While there is absolutely no evidence (as the examples of Ireland and Australia have recently shown) that a marginal increase in house building has any substantive effect on price.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

It's not the first time Cuomo has used party resources to build himself up, which is becoming an increasing point of frustration for progressives within state party ranks who want Democratic resources focused on campaigns to re-take the state Senate and the House of Representatives.

She said she created the Mattituck - Laurel Civic Association because she saw a need for the community to have a voice in its changing landscape, with increased traffic, new building and proposals that change the landscape, water quality, agritainment and nowhere for young people to work or affordable workforce housing to stay local.

David Cameron announced increased discounts to encourage council tenants to buy their homes, alongside a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage developers to build on government land and only pay for it once a house is sold.

The prime minister unveiled plans to increase the supply of housing, pledging to build 240,000 a year, up from the existing plan to build 200,000.

We're going to increase our commitment by investing an additional $ 100 million in building affordable housing.

The combined worry of cuts to housing benefit and the slashing of the affordable house building subsidy, coupled with the absence of a long term strategy, will be devastating for the housing aspirations of thousands of young people consigned to increasing costs and bringing up their future families in an insecure private rented sector.»

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Mr. de Blasio would not commit to supporting or opposing the bill today, though his administration has generally opposed measures that it believes could increase the costs of building affordable housing.

«As a city we can not in good faith push to build and preserve affordable housing while simultaneously increasing rents and effectively pricing families out of their homes.

«He wants you to believe that the housing crisis in our country can not be fixed in the way that Labour has consistently called for, and even colleagues in his own Cabinet have argued for, by increasing investment to build more housing.

On topic questions included whether the administration plans to increase low - income affordable housing production, what actions are required for the administration to count a unit of housing as «preserved», whether housing built with 421 (a) tax credits anywhere in the City should require affordable units, how the de Blasio administration counts housing underway at the end of the Bloomberg administration toward its goal, what was done in this housing complex to «preserve» these units, whether units counted as «preserved» are always on a 30 year agreement, the annual average of 20,000 units created or preserved as set forth in the mayor's ten year goal of 200,000 such units and how money was spent on the 17,000 units created or preserved in 2014.

The latest budget added $ 1.9 billion to increase the mayor's affordable housing goals from building or preserving 40,000 units over the next 10 years to 50,000 units.

Any initiatives focussed purely on first time buyers, without a sufficient increase in house building, could push prices up for entry level properties; particularly if second time movers have low or negative equity.

Selling off existing social housing and allowing local people to build their own homes are just two ideas that would vastly increase the number of new homes being built in Britain, says Nick Faith of Policy Exchange

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But a 60 per cent increase in house building in the next decade will need both a change in the industry's mind - set and a long term commitment by government to achieving continuous higher output.