Sentences with phrase «rise of council housing»

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

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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.

«Never again crumbling council houses in ghetto estates, the high rise nightmares of the 1960s,» he said.

None of them will do anything to tackle the massive shortage of council houses, indeed some may well make it worse, and none will address the rising cost of private rent.

«As the cost of living in New York City continues rising, we recognize that the creation and preservation of affordable housing is imperative to ensuring New Yorkers can continue to live and thrive in our diverse neighborhoods,» City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said in a statement after the vote.

«The rising cost of housing means that older tenants can not afford to escape rising housing costs, yet can not secure affordable housing elsewhere,» James wrote in the letter, which got supporting signatures from Councilman Mark Levine and Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, as well as 19 other council members from around the city.

Andrew Boff, Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly, says when it comes to new stock councils should only finance low rise and terraced housing

Kibwe Tavares / The Kitchen (United Kingdom): Raised in London's first favela housed in an abandoned Council high - rise, known as the Kitchen, Es commits smash - and - grab thefts as a way of redistributing the wealth to the community who took him in.

Kibwe Tavares (director) and Daniel Kaluuya (writer) / The Kitchen (United Kingdom): Raised in London's first favela, housed in an abandoned Council high - rise known as the Kitchen, Izi commits smash - and - grab thefts as a way of redistributing the wealth to the community who took him in.

The study, presented to city council Tuesday, found the residential non-occupancy rate was 4.9 per cent in 2002 and 4.8 per cent in 2014, although the number of empty units rose from 8,400 to 10,800 due to overall growth in housing stock.

John Paul Holdren, our half - a-hubshi's «Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)» is one of the losers in the famous Simon - Erlich Wager (1980 - 1990), having anticipated that the selected market basket of commodity metals (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten) would rise in price over the ten - year interval of the bet.

John Paul Holdren, «Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)» is one of the losers in the famous Simon - Erlich Wager (1980 - 1990), having anticipated that the selected market basket of commodity metals (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten) would rise in price over the ten - year interval of the bet.

John Paul Holdren, our Indonesian - in - Chief's «Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)» is one of the losers in the famous Simon - Erlich Wager (1980 - 1990), having anticipated that the selected market basket of commodity metals (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten) would rise in price over the ten - year interval of the bet.

Organized in conjunction with Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC), Making Room explores how the rise of New York's single adult population, in addition to other shifting social, economic, and cultural demographics, is dramatically changing the landscape of urban living.