Sentences with phrase «on housing each year»

(For some perspective: The US government spends about $ 60 billion on housing every year for the entire country.)

But when he was building the roof on his house years ago, he realized he...

How much do Americans spend on housing each year?

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Of course that initial $ 2.04 per week, after inflation and other escalators, works out to $ 44 billion spent on affordable housing over the next 10 years.

Among the highlights of this year's budget was a promise to spend $ 11.2 billion on affordable housing.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Sales of previously occupied homes rose in February to the highest level in nearly three years, while builders broke ground on more houses and apartments.

«In connection with our transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks last year, we reaffirmed this resolve, stating that we expected to hire 20,000 new employees at Charter, many in customer service,» the company said in a statement on March 24.

(Construction on houses began two years later.)

Tal notes that Australia limits foreign purchases of homes to new housing stock while New Zealand has introduced a capital gains tax on properties sold within two years of purchase.

In 1980, it took the typical Canadian aged 25 to 34 five years to save a 20 percent down payment on a house; now it's 12 years, or 15 if you live in Toronto, and 23 if Vancouver is home.

The House and Senate are currently working on separate tax overhaul plans in hopes of passing a bill for President Donald Trump to sign by year - end.

This year's finalist group will attend an event at the White House where one winner will be announced on Friday, May 8.

In February of last year, the U.S. airline CEOs met with President Donald Trump at the White House and asked him to push Middle Eastern carriers to comply with Open Skies agreements designed to ensure all airlines compete on a level playing field.

We lived in rural Wisconsin and on one of the coldest nights of the year, I was seven months pregnant with my first child and my husband and I went to bed one night and our house burned down.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

This may be the last year Kenny, Ireland's leader since 2011, makes the White House pilgrimage on behalf of Ireland.

WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the year, he signaled what many Republicans are already thinking: Midterm elections will be rough for the GOP if it wants to keep its majority.

Problems with the ignition switch were identified within the company as early as 2001 in a pre-production report for the model year 2003 Saturn Ion, according to documents provided last year to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Average home price (2014): $ 387,492 Time to buy in years: 3.7 5 - year price appreciation: 3.7 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 13 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 7.9 % Get more details on Durham / Oshawa's housing market.

Average home price (2014): $ 338,624 Time to buy in years: 3.7 5 - year price appreciation: 5.7 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 16 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 5.8 % Get more details on Barrie's housing market.

Average home price (2014): $ 357,569 Time to buy in years: 3.7 5 - year price appreciation: 5.7 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 12 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 6.7 % Get more details on Guelph's housing market.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

The U.S. and some other countries experienced housing busts over the last several years, so that scenario tends to get a lot of weight in people's minds when they reflect on the Canadian housing market.

Demographia rated six Canadian markets as «severely» unaffordable, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, in a report on housing prices released last year.

Average home price (2014): $ 275,622 Time to buy in years: 3.4 5 - year price appreciation: 5.0 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 14 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 6 % Get more details on Brantford's housing market.

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

As part of this transition, I have taken on a renovation project of our house of 12 years.

It's not a great three - year return on capital, but it's not the money - losing house of horrors it's made out to be, either.

Average home price (2014): $ 405,619 Time to buy in years: 4.4 5 - year price appreciation: 6.7 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 15 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 6 % Get more details on Hamilton's housing market.

Meanwhile, measures to rein in home prices are also taking effect in Hong Kong where house prices fell 0.6 percent on - year in June.

In the House, former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R - WI) took the gavel on the Ways and Means Committee at the start of this year, beginning a six - year term as its chairman.

Average home price (2014): $ 459,980 Time to buy in years: 3.7 5 - year price appreciation: 4.6 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 22 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 5.5 % Get more details on Calgary housing market.

Average home price (2014): $ 314,319 Time to buy in years: 3.3 5 - year price appreciation: 4.4 % Average 5 - year rent increase: 30 % Previous year's unemployment rate (2013): 2.8 % Get more details on Regina's housing market.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

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.

The company is just starting the matching process on the new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

He was able to save about $ 25,000 in two years by cutting back on housing, as well as transportation and dining expenses.

In a recent note to clients, Madani wrote that housing investment may continue to assist GDP growth throughout the rest of 2013, «but there are still tentative signs that a day of reckoning lies around the corner, with housing likely to become a significant drag on growth next year.»

From 2008 to 2010, Milne threw himself into the world of payments, becoming an expert on the Automated Clearing House, the 40 - year - old electronic network between financial institutions that's a notoriously convoluted and complicated system.

Last year the White House floated further fees on million - dollar loans and investments to cover the administrative costs, although opposition in the congressional committees promptly nixed that idea.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

Area: Burnaby Average house price (2016): $ 1,390,000 3 - year price change: 63.9 % Realtor grade (out of 5): ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Get more stats on this neighbourhood.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Area: Coquitlam Average house price (2016): $ 1,474,691 3 - year price change: 67.5 % Realtor grade (out of 5): ★ ★ ★ ★ Get more stats on this neighbourhood.

Area: Port Coquitlam Average house price (2016): $ 835,865 3 - year price change: 97.1 % Realtor grade (out of 5): ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Get more stats on this neighbourhood.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.