It raised the minimum down payment for people buying second homes and capped mortgage payments for people buying government-built housing at 30% of monthly income.
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Ms Cheong, meanwhile, has issued a public apology, saying that the noise from the wedding - in a common space known as a void deck underneath government-built housing often used for celebrations by different ethnic groups - had caused her to lash out.
They built affordable housing in the 1980s, then switched to high-end condo construction.
What this research rather missed though is that social housing, the government built and subsidised housing, is even worse in this respect.
As you know, I've built homes and built senior housing, and all of the things that I need to have access to government for.
So, given all that background, if we wanted to lower rents we would want to have more housing built: clearly, more houses will mean lower capital costs of housing and thus lower rents.
Back in Indonesia, some of the housing built for survivors remains empty due to poor construction that in some cases does not include drinking water or protect against the torrential rains.
The average price of new homes, excluding those built under affordable housing programs, soared 49.3% from a week earlier to 29, 925 yuan per square meter, Shanghai Uwin Real Estate Information Services Company said on Monday.
This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.
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The boom had been built on sand: housing speculation, overvalued stocks, reckless deregulation, irresponsible deficits.
In Moscow, many of the city's 11.5 million inhabitants own apartments in affordable-housing complexes built during the Soviet era.
In 1996 about half of all new housing was built on urban land.
"If you look outside you'll see the cranes have disappeared - there is very little housing being built in London, " Sir Simon said.
At some point those two points arguing in favour of more housing being built will overwhelm however much we did overbuild in the past.
The Golden Bridge is a key link between a new campus being built at Beechwood and housing and businesses in the Raigmore area of the city.
One-by-one the Bahaus-inspired public housing blocks built in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s in cities such as Saint Louis and Chicago have been demolished.
Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural standards and the urban plan survives intact, giving a vivid impression of Victorian philanthropic paternalism.
One of the most telling things in the film earlier this evening, was the concerns that local residents had, that the community centre was being built and that the housing developments were not taking place.
Since the 1960s, philanthropic, public, and private investments in the community development industry have produced astonishing returns: millions of affordable housing units built and the development of an extraordinary number of high-performing local, regional, and national nonprofit organizations.
Speaking to the Today programme he said that putting poor people in expensive areas does not create mixed communities but rather "parallel" ones and explained that if more social housing is built, "we can pepper pot it amongst other communities".
Much of the new housing will be built just beyond that wall, overlooking the embassy grounds.
Not enough new homes are being built in Guernsey, a housing needs survey has found.
Public housing is being torn down faster than new units of affordable housing can be built.
The company is China's largest housing contractor and built the futuristic Water Cube for the Beijing Olympics.
More States social housing could be built in the next few years after a change to Jersey's planning guidelines.
Much recent housing has been built to very low densities exacerbating urban sprawl.
Dave shows me a new housing estate, built over the old Treeton Colliery.
He built so much suburban tract housing in Springfield that he is thought to be responsible for naming 80 or more streets.
Designated as one of 10 new towns in 1949, Bracknell was originally built to help alleviate the housing shortages following World War II.
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