Sentences with phrase «to encourage home ownership»

The reason for this is that the federal government encourages home ownership by making the tax laws very friendly to home owners, especially to those with a mortgage.

With the government encouraging home ownership, banks reduced their requirements to borrow and started to lower their interest rates.

Some people say we shouldn't encourage home ownership because some people shouldn't own homes.

It is common for well - meaning friends or relatives to encourage home ownership based on their perception of their own experience.

These loans are provided by the federal government, which encourages home ownership.

Encourage home ownership by making home ownership more affordable for lower and middle - class people.

Plus, in the past falling oil prices have encouraged home ownership because the costs of driving to work and other activities will fall as well.

The city of Pasadena reviews the effectiveness of its affordable housing programs to ensure that the stated goal of encouraging home ownership regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or marital status or ancestry, among other things, is being met.

The US government used to subsidize and encourage home ownership though the mortgage interest and property tax deduction.

Also, although the government did encourage home ownership, it was the trade off of DEREGULATION that opened the door for corperations to engage in the behavior they did.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac encourage home ownership by purchasing mortgages on the secondary market, securitizing them, and reselling them to investors with the implicit guarantee that the government will reimburse investors if borrowers default on the mortgages.

The gov» t actively encouraged home ownership, through tax policies (e.g. mortgage interest deduction), through the creating of Freddie and Fannie and other GSEs and through lots of other laws and policies.

FHA's mission driven organization encourages home ownership and provides affordable housing options with low down payment and flexible credit requirements.

In the interest of encouraging home ownership, federal laws grant taxpayers a deduction of property taxes paid from their gross income when figuring taxable net income.

«Governments have been elected over the years for putting forward policies that encourage home ownership, and people have in turn viewed it as good policy.»

For example, the deduction for home mortgage interest is intended to encourage home ownership, rather than to properly reflect ability to pay income tax.

I want to encourage home ownership and support Conservative plans to scrap Stamp Duty for first - time buyers on homes up to # 250,000.

Michelle Donelan: Labour's Housing Minister may think repossession can be the best option but in standing against him I want to highlight Conservative plans to encourage home ownership

It's true that owning a home is not an entitlement, but as the economy begins to show signs of recovery, encouraging home ownership is an important aspect of reviving sluggish housing markets.

Final note: in many ways, this is a proper comeuppance to US policy that encourages home ownership.

For example, the mortgage interest deduction is supposed to encourage home ownership.

The Canadian government has programs in place to encourage home ownership, making it seem like a good idea.

The US government wants to encourage home ownership.

The jury is out; maybe in two years we will know for sure, but to me it seems that encouraging home ownership has been a disastrous social experiment.

Arguing that Indigenous land has done little to improve the material wealth and well - being of its residents, the Government's proposed a regime to subdivide communal land into individual lease lots and to encourage home ownership and business enterprise.

The FHA also began with a few other purposes and goals in mind: — To regulate the interest rate and mortgage terms it insures and thus increase the number of people who can afford to buy a home — To improve the national standards of housing — To set standards for home construction — To establish a strong financing system to encourage home ownership — To stabilize the housing market

In doing so, we are able to renovate homes in need of TLC, encourage home ownership and revitalize communities by improving the overall quality of residential housing.