Sentences with phrase «lower number of housing»

As a result, seven of the 10 provinces will register a lower number of housing starts in 2008 than in 2007, says CMHC.

Last year saw the lowest number of house completions since 1923 - just 103,000 - in an industry which even in its current state is around three per cent of GDP and which helps maintain around one and a half million jobs.

The lower number of houses for sale is usually accompanied by a reduction in potential customers, so sellers are forced to lower prices to attract an audience.

Not exact matches

House and Senate negotiators agreed to a number of changes in the bill, most notably lowering the top income tax rate for individuals to 37 percent from its current level of 39.6 percent.

Mr Marshall's Liberal Party secured 25 seats in the 47 - seat lower house, but he doesn't have the numbers in the upper house to push legislation through without the assistance of minor parties and two SA Best politicians.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The CFIB, in other words, represents a number of shops whose employees are paid substandard wages with no in - house pension plans, and who can get away with it because the taxpayer is topping up the low CPP / QPP payouts their employees receive on retirement.

The housing supply is lower, with the number of active listings dropping an average of 6 percent year to year and an average of 9 percent year to year in the last four months in Napa and Sonoma Counties respectively.

When the average passage of two - house bills during the tenures of various governors is compared, Cuomo has so far seen the lowest number — 643 — while the highest — 1,356 — was during the time former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller spent in office.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed today's House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee report which makes a number of recommendations on how universal credit could better support self - employed claimants.

Meanwhile de Blasio campaigned on record lows on crime, expanding free pre-K and increasing the number of affordable housing units across the city.»

The amount of LIHC available to project owners is directly related to the number of low - income housing units that they provide.

Shephard said that Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to greatly expand the city's number of affordable housing units provides an opportunity for developers to incorporate solar and clean energy into lower - income neighborhoods.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Some 42 % of the volume served on DemocraticAds.com this year was for state legislative campaigns, for example, in part because the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee encouraged candidates to hop on board [Update: it turns out that the 42 % number was for state rep / lower house races.

The Business Secretary clashed with his Labour opposite number, Chuka Umunna, in the House of Commons, with Mr Umunna claiming the low initial share price for the company meant investors were «laughing all the way to the bank».

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

Washington (CNN)- The number two House Democrat broke Monday with some of his fellow Democratic colleagues, and said he does not believe releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is appropriate now and it wouldn't help lower gas prices.

Because 2012 is the first election year following redistricting, the number of signatures needed for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House in Illinois and Pennsylvania is significantly lower than in normal years.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

The number of contested races might have been lower had the Legislature redrawn the House lines instead of a judge.

On March 23, the lower house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill that reduces the number of members a party must have, in order to be recognized.

The plan has been resisted by many housing advocate groups, who argue that it would impede building financing and result in a lower number of affordable units.

Lasher believes that preserving the existing affordable housing stock in the district, which has the highest number of regulated units in the city, is the answer to securing residences for low - income New Yorkers.

«To say zero or some diminimus number at this time is calamitous and all it's serving to achieve is to essentially derail projects that are almost all 100 % low income,» Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing Planning Council, said in an interview on Thursday.

On March 5, the Georgia House passed HB 899, which contains all the Secretary of State's election law recommendations except the provision lowering the number of signatures for minor party and independent candidates.

«It would hurt low - income individuals, and it would result in serious numbers of people being removed from health care and not having any coverage whatsoever,» she told reporters after an hourlong meeting with both Republican and Democratic members of the House delegation.

On June 7, the North Carolina House passed HB 32, which lowers the number of signatures for previously unqualified parties, and independent candidates.

In 2011, the Oklahoma House had passed HB 1058, which lowered the number of signatures to exactly 22,500.

New York also has a comparatively lower number of market - rate assisted - living and retirement communities than comparable metropolitan areas because the cost of rehabilitating older buildings is so high, a housing industry expert told the Times.

Here is the latest nomination in our series highlighting people David Cameron should consider appointing to the House of Lords, since any Conservative administration formed after the general election would be able to call upon the support of the lowest number of Conservative peers in history.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

On the panel, there are several affordable housing advocates, a number of Grand Street residents who have historically resisted low income housing on the SPURA parcels and a third contingent made up of «moderates,» people who have advocated compromise in order to «get something built.»

The sizable number of properties on the Lower East Side for which Goldberg has sought real estate tax reductions include Silver's own co-op, the Hillman Housing Corp., a large development of brick apartment buildings on Grand Street, tax records show, as well as the commercial building across the street that is listed in state records as the address for Silver's campaign committee, Friends of Silver.

If the low numbers are upheld by Congress — this bill must go through the full House of Representatives and then be reconciled with a companion bill in the Senate — some programs will be more vulnerable than others.

Upholding two earlier lower court rulings, it said the 1976 census law forbids the use of statistical sampling for determining apportionment — the number of members each state gets in the House of Representatives.

A slightly relabeled version of the same Lauer graph is what NIH Director Francis Collins presented to the House of Representatives [5], (Figure 2A) again with heavy bias to inconsequentially low numbers less than a single basic NIH R01 (highlighted in red in Figure 2A).

The Senate insists that those are the budget targets for this year, but the House decided to pass a different, lower set of spending numbers to guide its appropriations process.

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

I suppose next you will cut Title 1 money as I can predict that if this bill passes the house, more Title 1 monies will be necessary because the number of Floridians who fall into Low SES categories will increase.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

The White House released a report that shows that school districts with large numbers of low - income students, including Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego, stand to lose millions of dollars in federal funding under the House version of amendments to the nation's education law.

Your credit score is one of the most important numbers is your life, I found that the hard way when i tried to purchase a house... Definitely check your score once a year, make sure you keep a low balance on your credit cards, and of course pay all your bills on time

With lending guidelines taking a more open mind, it's time to look to compensating factors when a situation arises where a credit score is slightly low, a debt to income ratio is high, a buyer needs to temporarily assume 2 housing payments and a number of other circumstances.

The sector has been both volatile and profitable in the face of massive legislative overhauls, credit and liquidity crises, stubborn unemployment numbers, record low mortgage rates and a housing glut.

Mr. Fox is an AFCPE - accredited credit counselor and an NCHEC - certified housing counselor who, over the last fifteen years, has produced a number of guidebooks, DVDs, and educational curricula designed to educate young people and low - income individuals about personal finance.

By raising the number of seller financing transactions from 3 to 5 that an individual can participate in without having to register as a mortgage loan originator, H.R. 5287 would increase housing opportunities to moderate and low - income families, as well as first time homebuyers, without removing any safeguards that protect consumers against abusive lending practices.

Other factors, like the number of lightning strikes and the frequency of house fires may also play a role in lowering North Carolina homeowners insurance quotes.

What we can figure out from all these news is that the low mortgage rate is encouraging the house price and number of sales.

Exness, a forex brokerage house regulated in Cyprus and the UK, has introduced new enhancements to its pricing model, which would results in a lower number of trades...