Sentences with phrase «to tackle the housing crisis»

At Labour Conference last week, Jeremy Corbyn made one big announcement on the party's plans for tackling the housing crisis in our cities — rent controls.

No one will accuse 99 Homes of tackling the housing crisis with a subtle hand, as its characters are more symbolic than fully - forged; however, the way it drafts Nash's deal with the devil makes his choices far more understandable.

«They're a behemoth in the real estate game and I just want them to comply with city regulations, to be a good partner, so we can tackle the housing crisis unit by unit,» she said.

These bills tackle the housing crisis in a variety of ways, such as providing funding for subsidized affordable housing, making it harder for cities to block new projects and streamlining the approval process to help meet state housing goals, which have fallen behind.

«He said the Tories are the «builders» but he has sat on the side lines for the last five years and failed to tackle the housing crisis in this country — as a result housebuilding is at its lowest level in peacetime since the 1920s...

The director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights grabs a stellar cast and tackles the housing crisis with conscience, wit and outrage.

The Archbishop also called on the Government to tackle the housing crisis and warned of the importance of creating new communities.

Both say they will «tackle the housing crisis» yet neither will tie themselves to a specific number of new houses to be built each year.

«Whilst we welcome the government's commitment to tackle our housing crisis, today's announcement falls far short of the quarter of a million new homes we need each year just to meet demand... We are concerned that schemes to help first - time buyers and council tenants will simply encourage people to overextend themselves, while doing nothing to address the sky - high cost of housing.»

Investing # 6bn to build 100,00 extra social and affordable homes would start to tackle the housing crisis and create new jobs in construction and the supply chain, putting money in people's pockets to spend on the High Street.

The introduction of Firstbuy has shown the government is listening and it has made some of the right noises about planning and regulation too but it needs to have the courage to follow through and allow a free market and competition to govern housing and tackle the housing crisis.

In the run up to the general election, much has been said about the number of homes that need to be built to tackle the housing crisis.

Rather they are a chance to «send a message» about how Theresa May has failed to tackle the housing crisis and how she has mistreated the Windrush generation, he insisted.

And nothing to do with how her government has failed to tackle the housing crisis and mistreated the Windrush generation...

Tackling the housing crisis should be an open goal for Ed Miliband and his party.

The Liberal Democrats» target of 300,000 new homes a year would both tackle the housing crisis and create thousands of jobs in construction — a short - term economic stimulus with real long - term benefits.

The Taskforce, which has already met with new Housing Minister Gavin Barwell MP, is operating across 12 distinct areas of work to take a holistic view of how to tackle the housing crisis, covering everything from planning reform to housing associations, and construction skills to mortgage finance.

This same economic uncertainty confounds the biggest challenge we face as local representatives: ensuring that sufficient numbers of new homes are built to tackle the housing crisis.

We are moving forward on college affordability for all, protecting immigrant communities and tackling the housing crisis.

Tackle the housing crisis, building thousands more homes for Londoners each year, setting an ambitious target of 50 per cent of new homes being genuinely affordable, and getting a better deal for renters.

Leading Irish timber frame manufacture Cygum has said that it is possible to tackle the housing crises in the UK and Ireland by mass - producing high quality timber passive houses on a large scale.