Sentences with phrase «problem of affordable housing»

The tiny house movement is mainly a response to the problem of affordable housing.

They understand it because even if sea - level rise is a challenge to visualize, gentrification and the problems of affordable housing in the city are not.

Not exact matches

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

«After two years of denying that there was any problem in B.C.'s housing market, Premier Clark has taken steps that will do little to help the situation in the Lower Mainland, and will actually make things worse for people trying to find affordable housing in the rest of B.C.,» said Horgan.

But it was otherwise vague on plans to address the problem, stating without any specifics that it was expanding veterans» access to affordable housing and working with other levels of government and civil society.

To the Federal Reserve, the economic «problem» is that falling (that is, more affordable) housing prices are killing the balance sheets of banks.

A lack of affordable housing was a problem throughout the Keys long before Irma hit.

Lack of affordable housing is a social problem, so we've come up with a model that makes the community part of the solution.

Britain fetishises home ownership, but the biggest problem is a lack of affordable rental homes and housing policy should be trying to address this.

The lack of affordable housing has long been a problem in many Welsh communities - when Plaid went into government in Wales, we vowed to do something about it.

Increases in social security expenditure largely reflect problems or policies outside social security itself, such as high unemployment, lack of affordable childcare and the deregulation of the housing market.

Still, «the most pressing issue in our city of this generation is affordable housing,» James said; she stated that in her second term, she would work to address that problem, whether through making «preferential rent» permanent (rather than something a landlord can change or remove at whim), or creating more housing, rather than shelters, for homeless New Yorkers.

But a core element of the strategy must also be to respond to the UK's housing problems by building more genuinely - affordable homes.

Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York — whose members are Cuomo's largest campaign donors — responded to the governor by saying «we can't regulate our way out of our affordable housing problem» and calling for incentives to build more.

Ms. Barrios - Paoli lacks the higher profile of some of Mr. de Blasio's other deputies, but with a portfolio that includes health and human services, she'll be overseeing the city's response to a rapidly growing homelessness problem — a scourge that threatens to hurt Mr. de Blasio's affordable housing bona fides.

UPPER MANHATTAN — A lack of affordable housing options in Washington Heights and Inwood is driving residents out of the neighborhood, according to hundreds who rallied over the weekend to raise their voices about the problem.

Cuomo announced in his joint state of the state / budget speech in January a $ 20 billion plan to address affordable housing and the growing homeless problem.

Despite the avalanche of proposals, all commentators, including housing minister Grant Shapps, recognise the real crux of the problem is how we deliver enough new affordable homes to help those in desperate need of a new place to live.

If elected, he said he would focus on creating more affordable housing as well as addressing quality - of - life issues like graffiti and illegal dumping, and would make it a point to be responsive to constituents» everyday problems.

He has such fond memories of Mount Vernon, yet he chose to run away from the city, and currently resides in Rye, a «wealthy, mostly white» community which refuses to accept any form of «affordable housing» and is one of such communities in Westchester County which dumps all of «the problems» into Mount Vernon.

«She looks at how to tackle some of these problems with limited public funds,» said Rick Lazio, a former congressman who now heads the affordable housing practice at law firm Jones Walker and served with Glen as a trustee at Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit housing finance organization.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

Instead, they said, their attack was focused on the administration's approach to dealing with the ongoing problem, which has worsened due to a lack of affordable housing and the rising cost of living.

He also said de Blasio's policy only deals with the homelessness problem in the short term, and he accused the mayor of not pursuing more permanent options, including affordable housing vouchers for families.

City lawmakers, though, are developing less confrontational ways to tackle the problem of vacant, or warehoused, property that could be used for affordable housing.

The report also acknowledges that well ‑ designed neighbourhoods can create better health outcomes for children and adults, and that the development of new high ‑ quality, affordable homes can alleviate the housing crisis and unstick some of the UK's productivity problems.

Martin Powell - Davies, NUT regional secretary, said it was the responsibility of candidates for London Mayor and for the London Assembly to address «this significant and growing problem», by implementing new policies to boost affordable housing London.

The White House is attempting to refocus efforts on helping students out of their debt situation by addressing all sides of the problem — making quality education more affordable, increasing access to aid, and making loan repayment processes as painless as possible.

«Prevention is key: Access to affordable veterinary care so medical conditions can be treated sooner; education on proper training and socialization before behavior problems develop and / or progress; education on resources available to keep pets in homes; more resources for Chicago Animal Care and Control so they have the capacity to care for the volume of animals that they arerequired to house; and improved legislation.»

Miami faces the same housing problem as San Francisco and other cities: rising rents and a shortage of housing that is affordable to poor and middle - income people.

Two spectacular low energy social housing units looking out over Ulva Ferry's breath - taking surroundings prove to be a superb response to local problems of fuel poverty and lack of affordable family housing.

With respect to employment, 7 % of respondents with household incomes of $ 20,000 or less reported long - standing problems during their adult lives compared with 1 % overall; 10 % of the low income group had long - standing problems with debt compared with 5 % for all respondents; and 16 % of low income respondents experienced systemic problems obtaining affordable, quality housing compared with 3 % of all respondents.

Employers including global corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, hospitals and universities have encountered serious problems attracting and retaining employees because of affordable housing issues, especially in rundown inner cities and pricey suburbs.

Course attendees, representing a geographic cross section from California to Delaware and Minnesota to Texas, identified similar conditions — low inventory, bidding wars, flat income, appraisal problems — impeding the development of affordable housing for working families across their markets.

In the top 25 densest markets, more than half see the lack of affordable housing as a big problem, an increase of 11 percentage points from the 2015 National Housing Pulse housing as a big problem, an increase of 11 percentage points from the 2015 National Housing Pulse Housing Pulse Survey.

Nationally, 44 percent of respondents categorized the lack of available affordable housing as a very big or fairly big problem.

The high speed rail in California may open up a lot of affordable housing in far flung areas to lower income people helping to alleviate the problem temporarily.

HUD HOME reduces the amount of subordinate debt on affordable housing development projects, according to Baldasare, so cutting the HUD budget would exacerbate the equity gap problem.

The problems exposed in the subprime mess of the last 18 months have at least one silver lining: If you work for a one - stop - shop brokerage with an in - house mortgage operation, you possess a powerful tool to aid customers who otherwise could have trouble finding safe, affordable loan options.

But while the city grew and prospered, Asheville struggled with two problems shared by many older cities, a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing for local residents for whom even the $ 127,000 median - priced home was unattainable.

More than 50 percent of unmarried and non-white Americans view the lack of available affordable housing as a big problem, compared to only four in ten of married and white Americans.

It's an urgent problem, and that's why Freddie Mac's financing aims to preserve the supply of affordable rental housing by driving capital into the affordable and workforce housing space.

Second, ongoing problems in the housing market, particularly the ability of new home buyers to obtain affordable credit, may be preventing prospective workers from relocating to accept job opportunities.

There's no question, though, that the shortage of affordable housing in many parts of the country is a real problem with real consequences for people with low or moderate incomes.

Increased rents and stagnant wage growth leads to a problem of affordability for many renters, and a separate conversation about Affordable Housing, what it is and how it works.

«Austin Neudecker, Rev - NO: Saturation of the luxury apartment market matters little because there is a shortage of housing in general (I acknowledge that the problem is primarily affordable housing) and prices can easily be reduced.

The lack of quality housing that's affordable is a real problem that affects all facets of our society,» commented Eddie Lorin, Founder of Impact Housing REIT and its Sponsor Strategic Realty Holdinhousing that's affordable is a real problem that affects all facets of our society,» commented Eddie Lorin, Founder of Impact Housing REIT and its Sponsor Strategic Realty HoldinHousing REIT and its Sponsor Strategic Realty Holdings LLC.

Residents of «edge cities» now seem to be facing many of the same problems they moved to escape — including residential sprawl, clogged transportation, and a lack of affordable housing.

Nationally, 44 percent categorize the lack of available housing that is affordable as a very big or fairly big problem.