Industry body Homes for Scotland cautiously welcomed the increase in private sector house starts.
The number of private sector house starts has risen for the first time in Scotland in five years, according to official figures.
The structure of these discussions was built around the principles of the White House cross-sector partnerships strategy, which outlines three basic roles when organizing leadership: convening of diverse stakeholders around an issue or within a community, catalyzing action to address challenges on a local, regional, or national scale, and coordinating leaders in order to address shared objectives.
Gene Sperling, director of the White House National Economic Council, said private-sector growth over the last several months has exceeded White House estimates.
In the same sector, House of Fraser reported its best December figures ever.
One sign of positive economic growth is in the housing sector, with house prices still buoyant by recent standards, but elsewhere figures showed that factory activity in the US barely grew in April.
Those exports are generating jobs in every corner of the United States and across every major sector, the White House said last year.
First, the Kauffman Foundation delivered a state of Entrepreneurship address at the National Press Club, then everyone moved over to the White House to talk about various private sector efforts.
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Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
He was tanned and rested from a long summer vacation, thrilled to be spending more time with his family and eager to start reaping the greener pastures of the private sector after leaving the White House in July.
The report said these should be delivered by lenders and house builders working together in the private sector, but the government could step in and share some of the risk if it could not happen on a purely commercial basis.
Before his recently announced return to the private sector, Craig was White House counsel in the Obama administration, and also the President's designated point-man on smoothing the way for fulfilling an ill-conceived presidential campaign promise: the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010.
President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.
At the other end of the spectrum from Mr Ayalon, Moshe Ya'alon, a former head of the army, argues that the only way to deal with Hamas is to send the army in to retake the Gaza Strip sector by sector, street by street, house by house, the way it did in the West Bank during the intifada.
Although the course for cargo is set, the White House has not yet decided to have the commercial sector transport astronauts.
In future, councillors will judge whether services should be provided in-house, by private contracts, with the voluntary sector or in partnership with other local authorities.
He cites other examples of how government pressure on private companies has violated civil liberties: McCarthy-era black lists were generated by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, but enforced by private sector hiring practices.
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Professor Steve Wilcox of York University, who carried out the analysis, said that in many areas, people who were unable to buy a house could still afford to rent in the private sector.
Today at an event held at the White House, the Obama Administration recognized innovators in the auto sector, and the positive impacts the resurgence of the auto industry is having in communities across the country.
"But while house prices tripled in the years since 1994, private sector rents only increased in line with earnings, and the costs of renting have as a result fallen relative to the costs of buying, " he added.
"Most of us have rented a flat or house at some stage in our lives and the private rented sector is, at its best, a vital provider of good housing, " said housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper.
The Senate is friendly, and can be counted on to reverse the lower house's more irresponsible measures (such as a higher ceiling for public-sector salaries).
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So, standby for a boost to house-building or, rather, yet another government attempt to stimulate the construction sector, which shrank by almost 8% last year.
Among the chief solutions proposed by the White House: requiring Fannie and Freddie to meet the same capital standards as the private sector banks they once shared the mortgage market with.
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Sir Mervyn, also speaking at Mansion House, said the eurozone debt crisis had pushed up funding costs in the banking sector, which in turn meant the cost of borrowing for businesses and individuals had risen.
In the House, a modest proposal from the Intelligence Committee to enhance cybersharing between the private sector and the National Security Agency was met with a presidential veto threat over alleged privacy concerns and was never even considered by the Senate.
So yesterday, at the White House, we had a forum on jobs and growth, with leaders from every sector of our economy and every political and economic viewpoint -- from the CEO of Google to small business owners who know our economy as well as anybody.
Hartford Financial Services ( HIG - news - people ), says the House vote create more opportunities in the next year to 18 months for the health care sector.
The White House has been at the forefront of a similar appreciation of prizes and competitions in the public sector.
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