Sentences with phrase «of housing repair»

It estimates that around # 9.3 billion of housing repair, maintenance and improvement work was undertaken in the informal economy in 2010.

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Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, implored Wray during a hearing on Thursday to «repair the damage done by» former FBI Director James Comey.

In addition to the price of the house, there will be closing costs, which Zillow estimates as being between 2 and 5 %, and other miscellaneous costs such as repairs and renovations.

The budget is also expected to devote big money to tackle the acute housing shortage in Indigenous communities, where homes are often overcrowded and in serious need of repairs.

To a large degree, Labor's big budget repair plans have stalled, while newcomers on both sides of the aisle find their way around their house on the hill.

The housing «crisis» is largely over, but there is still plenty of repair work to be done, namely fixing the housing finance system.

With so much damage, insurance payouts and repairs can take a long time (even with out of state companies, there's a long waiting list for them to get to the house), so it can take a year or more to get repairs.

Banks and other institutions could lend more money every time the Fed reduced rates, and this led consumers to feel more confident in borrowing more, but it stressed their actual financial system beyond repair in many cases, and it caused stress for those that didn't borrow because they felt priced out of the housing market.

Through this, the required expenses for the repair and replacement will be identified and will affect the value of the house.

Find a house that has potential to sell for a higher dollar amount if cosmetic changes are made, and then compare the cost of the home and the repairs to the price at which you could sell it in the end.

These warranties cover many repair costs for homeowners, removing much of the uncertainty that can comes with a pre-owned house.

I did have a good amount of repairs which cut into my profit, but I've been reading about renting out houses short - term, mainly via AirBnB to really increase your earnings.

I thank my Mormon neighbor fairly often still when I think of all the repairs and clean up their work crews did in my yard and in my house (and around practically every neighborhood on the gulf coast) with no obligation to join or even attend their church.

I can't believe how many young people I know now, friends of my own children, kids who hang out at our own house, who's hearts have been crushed beyond recognition and sometimes I wonder beyond repair... some by their parents, some by other authorities, and some by the church.

A house in good repair and large enough for your family, with furniture in good condition, would qualify as a necessity (or as a necessary decency) for almost all of us.

A woman working for a janitorial firm servicing the Baltimore World Trade Center says she now can buy clothes from a regular store instead of Goodwill and pay for the basic repairs on her house rather than watch it deteriorate.

What's absurd about insisting that he repair the garage that's sinking right along with the driveway and causing the entire side of the house to sag?

At least three times the homeowners have later told me that our quick action saved them thousands of dollars in damages and prevented them from having to move out of the house while it was being repaired.

Personally, I have seen very few of these «religiuos leaders» driving a 15 year old car, or struggling to buy food for their families, or living in a house they can't afford to make repairs on.

But the more commonly heard suggestion is that proceeds from the dividend should go to any of a wide variety of social programs: AIDS research, day care, education, drug control, medical care, public housing, environmental protection, repair of the nation's infrastructure.

Our in house design and installation teams can repair and update older plant equipment considerably extending the life of the plant.

The full - service industrial packaging company is a distributor of corrugated shipping boxes, protective packaging products and solutions, shipping room supplies, custom printed stock boxes, as well as state - of - the - art packaging machines and equipment, along with an in - house authorized equipment maintenance and repair program.

Here is footballer earning at the very least 10,000 Pounds a week, and he has lived in a house for six months but hasn't picked up the phone to get someone to repair his dishwasher, or even get a brand new one delivered and fitted, which would cost at the most 5 % of his weekly wage...

The Park District is exploring whether outside firms could provide refuse collection for all of its regions - except the lakefront - and repair its truck and auto fleet more cheaply and efficiently than in - house workers.

She was frustrated by her husband's lack of motivation in repairing the leaky faucets around the house.

Lefko also helped to repair the Rufus Porter murals in Old Sturbridge Village's Oliver Wight House, now the Old Sturbridge Inn, which dates to 1789 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

See the many houses along Route 5S, right in the center of the hamlet, that have never been repaired.

A report released by Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein and New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres on Thursday found the city's public housing units are in dire need of repair, with problems ranging from mold on the walls, leaking ceilings and peeling paint.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency at the New York City Housing Authority and ordered an independent monitor be appointed to oversee and expedite repairs to the agency's deteriorating buildings, where 400,000 New Yorkers live.

NYCHA hasn't received state money in years, and serious repairs and capital investments are needed to improve the aging housing stock, some of which was built for veterans returning from the second world war.

This means using the power of government to step in and repair the dysfunctional housing market.

New York City's sprawling public housing system — the largest in the U.S. — needs an estimated $ 25 billion of repairs, up from $ 6 billion in 2005.

But the mayor is now saying that Cuomo is ultimately on the hook for making repairs to the system, as well as to that of the New York City Housing Authority.

These Housing Trust Fund grants will enable each public housing authority to complete essential capital repairs that will enhance the quality of life for residents.Housing Trust Fund grants will enable each public housing authority to complete essential capital repairs that will enhance the quality of life for residents.housing authority to complete essential capital repairs that will enhance the quality of life for residents.»

Just about every sector of our economy has felt the pain, whether you're paving driveways in Arizona or selling houses in Ohio, doing home repairs in California or using your home equity to start a small business in Florida.

Research, commissioned by the FMB, shows that cutting VAT from 20 % to five per cent for all housing repair, maintenance and improvement work would provide a total economic stimulus in the region of # 1.7 billion in 2012 alone, rising to over # 20 billion by 2020.

BUSHWICK, Brooklyn — A grandmother of seven living in a Bushwick New York City Housing Authority apartment says she needs repairs and an extermination.

The funding is provided through the State's Public Housing Modernization Drug Elimination program, part of a modernization program that provides grants to public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for needed repairs and improvHousing Modernization Drug Elimination program, part of a modernization program that provides grants to public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for needed repairs and improvhousing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for needed repairs and improvements.

The dispute over funding to pay for cleanup costs and infrastructure repairs saw Christie and Rep. Peter King of Long Island, Republicans both, openly questioning and assailing the GOP leadership in the House of Representatives.

In the spirit of the regeneration and urbanisation that this administration has set out to achieve, we believe strongly that the image that is exhumed by the decadence of that road must be repaired and we took it upon ourselves to appropriate the 2017 budget that the House of Assembly should approve the total reconstruction of the Airport Road from Oshodi to the International Airport.

Today, New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Bronx Borough Commissioner Nivardo Lopez, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Borough Deputy Director Derek Powell, and Council Member Andy King officially unveiled newly repaired sidewalks at NYCHA's Gun Hill Houses in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx.

The property tax relief fits in with the mayor's goal of making housing affordable, Ignizio said, by preventing storm victims from being priced out by tax bills after making expensive repairs.

The contract provides a framework for the hiring of union contractors to complete badly needed repairs throughout the city's public housing complexes.

The plan, which has been rebuffed by the de Blasio administration, calls for major additional investments in NYCHA repairs, 15,000 new units of senior housing on NYCHA land, and more.

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

The New York City Housing Authority, which receives 50,000 new repair requests every week, reduced a backlog of around 350,000 resident work orders in March to 106,000 by the end of the year, nearly hitting the agency's goal of 100,000.

Cuomo indicated today, however, that the many thousands without power still may likely need some form of short or medium - term housing while their homes are repaired.

Among those listed were: high rents, lack of housing stock, failure of landlords to maintain apartments and make repairs when needed, etc..

The homeowner relief from Bank of America will target low - income communities where many residents have mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, and includes plans to turn over vacant foreclosed properties to land banks and municipalities, and to chip in toward their repair or demolition.