Sentences with phrase «people build houses»

«When people build houses in their habitat, of course they will seek a dry spot in people's houses because they can't go anywhere else,» he says.
Why do you think people build houses in floodplains?
Q: There's a lot of talk about the problem of people building houses at the edge of fire - prone forests.
The next phase of occupation of the moor came during the medieval period when people built houses and farmed at 1500 feet.

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When asked how long the construction of a building using the bricks would take, Musk replied that «two people could build the outer walls of a small house in a day or so.»
Consider the case of New Ordos, a city the government of Inner Mongolia built from scratch in just five years to house 100,000 people.
«Maybe unlike the Senate, I think the House, you are responsible for that 750,000 people you represent» and «the relationships that you build,» Walker said.
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was built in 1910 to house thousands of people who had contracted tuberculosis before a cure was known.
You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.
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.
A Reuters witness described the roof and walls of a well - built house shaking hard as the storm rocked the island of Providenciales and caused a drop in pressure that could be felt in people's chests.
«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.
He said on Twitter that the bricks would allow two people to «build the outer walls of a small house in a day or so.»
Now, roughly 80 % of the city's population — nearly six million people — lives in these buildings, which are known as HDBs, from the name of the Housing and Development Board.
«The barriers to building housing that's affordable for people at all levels of income is not the money that's available.
You could find these people dining at Steve Forbes» house (or building) or at the now - defunct Four Seasons Restaurant in midtown Manhattan, picking at Dover sole and complaining about how much money Democrats spend.
The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.
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.
Curbed reports that the homes could act as temporary housing for people affected by disasters, or for residential or hospitality purposes, as it can be built quickly and doesn't require foundational soil.
These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R - TX) holds up an example of the «postcard - sized» form he wants people to use when filing their taxes during a markup session of the proposed GOP tax reform legislation in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 6, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Week 2: marketing: work out how to get in touch with all the people like the guy who built my house who «don't do email» and pitch them the deal that if they can use the web they can do everything they need with email.
Build efficiency housing (green) small, small backyards, kind of like public storage places, but very small for 1 - 4 people only.
Ethereum was created with the intent for people to have the ability to build programs that have no middle man and no central server to house information, making them less vulnerable to abuses by individuals, agencies, or corporations.
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.
Most people would say that buying a house is more expensive than building one.
People borrow for 10 years or 30 years to fund long - term capital projects, like to build a house or maybe a factory.
The group is popular among people who want to build passive income through real estate investments, like house flipping and rental properties.
Jeremy helped to build a people - powered election campaign based on strong volunteer organizing that propelled Barack Obama back to the White House.
All of the people, all of the technology — everything — was built in - house
«We need to create a policy between the school board and the city to build attainable housing for young people in the core,» said Mayor Mandel.
Similarly, when people ask me how to build a fancy house cheap and stylish, quoting some fancy architectural ideas from all over the world, eg.
Initial assessments indicate that the number of damaged or destroyed buildings is between 17,000 and 20,000, which housed 54,000 people — about 80 per cent of the total population of the island.
Now some of that is going to be inevitable, the need to rebuild after a hurricane in Florida, or potentially in Puerto Rico, some of it is going to be we need to build more houses because our young people haven't got anywhere to live.
If you are able to build an in - house practice, bring on people who have the requisite background in anthropology and ethnographic research.
Once people reach a point in life where their income is more substantial and their financial needs have grown, they have the means and the incentive to purchase a house that will build financial value.
By building and operating an excellent public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities, families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffic.
Do you know the person that built the White House?
What might this garden - planting and house - building look like for the transient people of the 21st century?
The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.
They can't even get building materials to replace the houses destroyed by bombs — those people live in rubble or move in with relatives, any rebuilding is from salvaged rubble.
I agree it is not about a building, but it is about a committed relationship with people (whether temple courts or house to house) where we live in meaningful relationships guided by the Holy Spirit.
and like lnivig stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Still baffles me how people who labor to build their houses and families the way they want it, will wake up and said that there is no God that organized and built this universe the way it is.
I may not have caused my disease, but the people who many years ago buried toxic waste on empty land, land on which my house was later built, greedy people who did not want to pay for proper disposal of the waste, were responsible for my disease.
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.
Another developer built low income housing for poor people.
Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.
They are going to great lengths and great expense to protect their people and provide safe houses, buildings and workplaces for their citizens.
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