Sentences with phrase «up to the housing crisis»

Once that ends, this loan category may explode in growth, just as subprime did leading up to the housing crisis.
During the run - up to the housing crisis, many people «qualified» for mortgages that they could never pay back.
Also sometimes called «exotic,» these mortgage types were common in the run - up to the housing crisis, and often featured loans with low initial payments that increase over time.

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April 24 - Real estate developers in British Columbia will soon be required to collect and report information on people buying and flipping condo presale units, as the province ramps up its crackdown on tax fraud amid an escalating housing affordability crisis.
It also vindicates Buffett «s confidence in Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan, who accepted his money when the bank was only midway through cleaning up balance sheet and litigation issues tied to the U.S. housing and financial crises.
The housing crisis meant more people were turning to rental accommodation... so new letting agencies and landlords sprung up.
«Confidence» was the theme of Poloz's opening statement before the House of Commons Finance Committee, which identified a need to restore the faith of Canadians in pursuing business opportunities following the shake - up of the global financial crisis.
While we wound up winning along with two other teams out of a pool of more than 4,000 applicants, none of us had actually produced clean energy, fixed a significant element of the education system or tested a solution to the housing crisis.
It's still up for debate how much Airbnb is contributing to the housing crisis.
If you listen to the latest buzz, House Republicans are now thinking of triggering a crisis over the debt - ceiling debate, likely coming up in late October, rather than the federal budget.
The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the financial system to make up for the failures in social policies.
To recap, a massive housing bubble that built up through the naughties (2000s) finally burst in 2008, feeding a financial crisis, as extremely loose (some would say fraudulent) lending practices pushed housing prices up to spectacular, never - seen - before levels, and created a plague -LSB-..To recap, a massive housing bubble that built up through the naughties (2000s) finally burst in 2008, feeding a financial crisis, as extremely loose (some would say fraudulent) lending practices pushed housing prices up to spectacular, never - seen - before levels, and created a plague -LSB-..to spectacular, never - seen - before levels, and created a plague -LSB-...]
Jean Swanson, a veteran of decades of anti-poverty work in Vancouver, noted that the only up side she could see to the crisis is that it might possibly slow down the «luxury condo hurricane» she has seen crowd out needed new social housing in the Downtown Eastside.
The single «action» he called for was to urge Americans to light up the switchboards of Republican members of the House to compel them to support his approach, which includes tax hikes, to address the debt crisis.
The Big Short, an upcoming film about the housing and credit bubble that led to the financial crisis of 2007 - 08, is lining up one of the better casts in recent...
In what initially appeared an in - house crisis has come to the fore as the leadership of the All Progressives Congress have started throwing up tantrums at each other over who should speak on behalf of the party.
For all his talk of «not wanting to live in a country where aspirations are trashed» and where only «rich parents» can get you on the property ladder, his actions make it crystal clear that David Cameron is not the courageous and selfless politician to step up and solve the housing crisis.
The campaign for PR has been around for a long time, but it's only since the expenses crisis that it's built up a head of steam again, yet the Tories used a primary to select Boris Johnson for London Mayor and many of the current crop of parliamentary candidates were selected by primaries before anyone knew about duck houses and moats.
Tributes fully paid, Adebanwi proceeded, reading from his book, the media recording of critical junctures of Nigeria's political evolution: the 1953 media excitement after Anthony Enahoro, on 22 July 1953, in the House of Representatives, had raised the self - government motion by 1956; the June 12, 1993 presidential election annulment, and the follow - up media crisis of infidelity to truth and principle, and, of course, the 1999 transition to civil rule election, which presidency Olusegun Obasanjo won.
«I need all of you to speak to every elected official in Albany and urge them to step up and to urge the governor of the state of New York and the state Legislature to work with the city government, to work with the mayor, to work with my office, to work with the City Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she added.
Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey, incredibly Labour's eleventh holder of the brief since 1997, yesterday talked about a «growing housing crisis», in a sign that Labour may finally have woken up to the mess they left Housing Minister Jack Dromey, incredibly Labour's eleventh holder of the brief since 1997, yesterday talked about a «growing housing crisis», in a sign that Labour may finally have woken up to the mess they left housing crisis», in a sign that Labour may finally have woken up to the mess they left behind.
«I think ultimately this election will be a referendum on the mayor's poor management of various city agencies, his inattention to detail, his failure to come up with real solutions for the affordable housing crisis, for the spike in homelessness,» Ulrich said.
Housing's new found political popularity is probably in no small part due to the rapid creep of the crisis up the income scale.
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.
De Blasio gave up a chance to push New York City's agenda directly with Trump by pulling out of what would have been his first White House meeting with the president, citing a Justice Department notice about a crackdown on sanctuary cities as the reason for skipping the 100 - plus mayor sit - down, where infrastructure and the opioid crisis were on the agenda.
Airbnb is fighting back against a coalition that claims the site gobbles up cheap apartments, calling the group a front for the hospitality industry because it hasn't tried to stop the spate of hotel conversions also exacerbating the housing crisis.
Similarly, the housing crisis in London is now so bad that my team have had to set - up a database of «housing horrors».
Donovan, who also served as Obama's Housing and Urban Development secretary through the mortgage crisis recovery before moving into his current job, has been quietly talking up the idea of running for years in private, and those conversations had picked up recently, according to several people who've been involved in them.
«The creation of affordable housing for families and especially for seniors thus far has not kept up with demand, contributing to the inherited housing crisis.
«As housing costs continue to spiral through the roof, families throughout the West Bronx are being squeezed by the worst affordable housing crisis in New York's history, and I am pleased to join with elected officials from throughout our community as we stand - up for residents from all walks of life,» Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner (D - Bronx, 77th AD).
The ex-minister also suggested slapping extra taxes on foreign investors who buy up properties and leave them empty, in a bid to solve the country's housing crisis.
Academy Award ® Winners Meryl Streep * and Julia Roberts ** star in the darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
This time, instead of moving into their home with their new baby, Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) have just sold their house in order to move into a new one with their soon to be born second kid, and instead of being tormented by a fraternity led by Zac Efron's Teddy Sanders, they are up against a new sorority led by Chloe Grace Moretz's Shelby, who is helped out by Teddy because obviously they had to figure out a way to get him back in the game (via a quarter life crisis that's actually pretty amusingly played by Efron).
ABOUT «AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY» AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Based on the non-fiction novel by Michael Lewis «The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,» the film tells the story of the build - up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the discovery of mass subprime fraud and the financial crisis of 2007 - 2010.
When a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, three sisters confront the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
As the national security team scrambles to respond, the secret service ground team is wiped out and it's up to Banning to retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger crisis.
«No houses, no exceptions,» barks crew leader Nick Atwater (Andre Braugher), when his gang of fellow thieves shows up at his handsome New Orleans home to console him during a wrenching personal crisis.
Grandpa, probably in the midst of a mid-life crisis at the time, pulls up to my parents» small starter house in a Fox Body Mustang convertible and gives four - year - old me a ride.
$ $ RT @pdacosta: Bernanke's big housing speech makes no mention of the Fed's regulatory laxity in run - up to the crisis.
While over-obligating yourself or unexpected repair bills may jeopardize your ability to keep up your house payments, the primary causes of foreclosure and bankruptcy are unanticipated personal crisis.
[* Apparently, a landlord deciding not to renew a lease is now deemed an eviction by some... ** For overseas readers, it may be hard to keep up: The housing crisis no longer refers to the huge Irish price collapse... it's now an appalling shortage of housing, just a few years later!?]
The Obama administration realized that with the decrease in home values due to the mortgage crisis and the economy, many homeowners do not have sufficient equity built up in their homes to traditionally refinance or restructure their mortgages to their advantage, despite the drop in interest rates that is prevalent right now in the housing market.
In the face of the recent housing crisis, most conventional lenders will require at least 5 percent (and up to 20 percent) down.
Traded during the great Internet dot come era, when stocks would go up 5 - 14 points a day, eBay, QCOM, and TASR was a favorite, and also traded the Dot.com crash where all the over bloated stocks sank quickly, and the recent housing bubble and market meltdown with the banking crisis, I remember CFC sank from the mid 30's to the single digits.
A week after the O'Malleys» dogs were seized, several dozen more were taken from a home in the Haines City area, creating a crisis for animal - services workers, who had to double - up the number of animals housed in cages.
Owners who wish to keep their pet can be provided with resources to help resolve whatever problem led them to consider giving up the animal, such as information on resolving common behavioral problems, referrals for low - cost spay / neuter services and affordable veterinary care, information on pet - friendly housing or food and supplies to get the pet and owner through a crisis.
As the national security team scrambles to respond, the secret service ground team is wiped out and it's up to Banning to retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger crisis.
And so when former Rose director Michael Rush invited an auction house to perform an evaluation on the collection, and then talked up its cash value (about $ 350 million) with the university's leaders, hoping to impress upon them the Rose's importance, his actions had a disastrously unintended consequence: The dollar signs lit up in their eyes, and they saw a quick solution to Brandeis's financial crisis.
Obsessed with its own failure and escaping the aestheticization of it, the space ends up failing to fail, instead treating its admission of this failure to be radical or institutional as semantic currency in the «project space» conversation and its relationship to issues in Portland and across the nation's cities like the housing crisis, gentrification, and white supremacy.
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