Sentences with phrase «of building housing for»

But in the last two decades, instead of building housing for people, we've built a housing crisis.

Moving to this house, built in the garden of an existing dwelling, was Duffy's first experience of building a house for himself, so making the most of his philosophy of green building was essential.

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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.»

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

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.

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.

In addition to advertising on the Digiday site — which generates about half the company's revenue — and running events, Friese said the company has also built a digital - advertising agency or studio in house that creates ads for a variety of marketers both on and off the site, including clients such as Nissan.

The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.

Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

The «Riverfront Era» gallery features a façade made with stones from the Old Rock House, a structure built as a warehouse in 1818 that was demolished to make way for the construction of the arch.

Major clients in 2002 were Technip - Coflexip, Department of Housing and Works, and the firm was currently building offices for Robe River Mining, she said.

«We have a housing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hHousing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit housinghousing.

For most contractors, success relies on the strength of the construction industry, and observers point to recent drops in housing - starts and building permits to suggest that Canada's house - building spree may be cooling off.

«The barriers to building housing that's affordable for people at all levels of income is not the money that's available.

For decades, urban governments have built information systems that trafficked in huge amounts of data in - house — everything from GIS mapping systems to huge amounts of hoarded traffic stats.

While things are looking much better for the house that Mario built than they were 18 months ago, there are still a number of potential roadblocks.

«The Township of Langley is planning to develop multi-family housing and build up the commercial space on 200 Street and that will certainly improve amenities and access for this centrally - located and well - serviced neighbourhood.»

And I learned the hard way that the amount of equity I build is no match for maintenance, renovation, and the thousand other little nicks and expenses that owning a house entails.

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.

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.

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.

A Toronto friend looking for his first house recently settled on a newish build, located well to the west of the downtown and away from transit lines.

The couple built the house in 1959 and watched as their neighborhood, once green with plenty of space for backyards and swing sets, vanished.

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

Both Myers and the Atlantic's Joe Pinsker speculate that one major source of competition for aging millennials could be what Nielsen has called «urban burbs» — suburban developments built to be walkable, and include a mix of living and retail space, while still offering cheaper, larger houses.

But for many other cities, tall buildings are needed to fill a shortage of affordable, innovative and sustainable housing.

The market for apartments and condos: So far, the main engine of the housing recovery has been the so - called multi-family sector, apartment complexes and condo buildings usually owned by investors and inhabited by renters.

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.

Build efficiency housing (green) small, small backyards, kind of like public storage places, but very small for 1 - 4 people only.

For the uninitiated, here's how it works: Amazon Prime members can now purchase any number of the available branded Dash buttons, physical devices built to be positioned around the house.

The first house of the area was built in 1872 by S.S. Rogers, who was known for her generosity of liberally distributing water to the bypassers.

I don't recommend it for one - off campaigns like broken link building, but if you're an in - house or if you spend a lot of time with fewer clients, Buzzstream is essential.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

He says more and more housing developers realize there is a huge market potential for these types of green buildings; buyers understand there will not only be lower operating costs, but they will also be in a community of like - minded people.

Making the same adjustment for residential housing that the Fed made for corporate buildings — in valuing them at their historical cost — would raise residential land values to 60 percent of the total (equal to the 1990 figure).

My cash flow is currently tied up until the end of December building a house for my father so I have time to make a decision.

Link Research Tools can definitely optimize the efficiency of your link building campaigns, while the amount of reports you can run will be sufficient for every in - house link builder, and for most search engine marketing agencies too.

The Audain family has donated in excess of $ 100 million through the Audain Foundation, including significant contributions to the University of Victoria, Presentation House Gallery's new building fund, Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts, various arts - related endeavours at the University of British Columbia, the National Gallery of Canada, the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design's new building fund, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and much more.

* $ 100k deposit on a $ 500k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 80k deposit on another $ 400k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 30k in stocks (see above for allocation) * $ 24k three months emergency fund placed in mortgage offset account (3 months of two mortgage repayments plus strate levies for both properties $ 18k, 3 mths living expenses $ 6k) * $ 16k left - > save that for building up another deposit / down payment for either a studio / 1or2 br apartment or a house

So, my family's choices are: We stay here in our flimsily built house, made of sheet rock and plywood; or we hop on an unmoving highway and risk running out of gas closer to the coast, with only our car for protection.

So, my family's choices are: We stay here in our flimsily - built house, made of sheet rock and plywood; or we hop on an unmoving highway and risk running out of gas closer to the coast, with only our car for protection.»

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).

PartnerHero provides customer service, design, and engineering for startups, but we also have an in - house team of product managers, designers, and web developers building homegrown tools for our teams and our partners to use.

As a metropolitan area of almost six million, Atlanta is better equipped to incorporate the inflow of new workers and build enough housing for its growing population.

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.

6) Single product strategy, lack of brand and need for local content: Netflix's business to date has been largely built on American movies and its own top - quality series such as «House of Cards» and «Marco Polo.»

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for March new residential building permits.