To prevent the real-estate market from crashing, China also started a massive public-housing program aimed at lower-income workers.
She is blamed for another current problem - the housing crisis - by Owen Jones in the Independent.
Federal housing officials are trying to help people like Lizica -- and his neighbors -- by making public housing smoke-free.
However, non-financial wealth--most notably housing--tends to rise while annuity payments remain flat.
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The firm behind the plans - Elim Housing Association - said an extensive number of surveys had taken place and the land was suitable.
In 2007, Dalio predicted that the housing-and-lending boom would end badly.
In April, the government will implement a system that would replace the main means-tested benefits-- such as income and housing support -- with a single payment.
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After the insanity of the dot-com and housing busts left mom-and-pop traders bewildered by lurching markets, many sensibly packed up and left equities for the safety of their mattresses.
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They recently released a survey which they say shows that citizens -- even in the supposedly more conservative housing-estate heartland -- are more tolerant toward gay activity than expected.
Few signs of life yet, however, for the dead-in-the-water housing market despite a jump in housing starts during June when good weather inspired construction companied to catch-up on previously stalled projects.
Another tech-fueled housing trend: real-estate-centric social networking sites.
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The MPs also raised concerns over plans to provide Universal Credit money to be used for housing direct to claimants - rather than housing associations or councils - suggesting that this could lead to rent arrears.
Confusion over property ownership, the unforgiving geography of Port-au-Prince and its tightly-packed housing are all major challenges, explains Michael Wyrick - one of those contracted by the government to help with debris clearance and building demolition.
Cezayir, tucked into a cul- de-sac within the Soho-esque antiques shopping district Cukurcuma, is a 19th-century former school building housing several environments--a garden, an informal lounge, a formal dining room with teal walls and an ornate chandelier.
Ms. Quinn's plan to build 40, 000 new middle-income apartments would be the largest such housing construction program since the Mitchell-Lama program was created in 1955 to provide affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families.
He points to the successes already achieved in this area by New York architectural firm LOT-EK -- one of the pioneers of container housing -- and Jennifer Siegal, founder of the Los Angeles-based Office of Mobile Design.
Last month, I directed my economic team to work with the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- or FHFA -- and their partners in the housing industry to identify barriers to refinancing, knock those barriers down, and explore every option available to help many American homeowners to refinance.
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For us, expanding opportunity means not the backward-looking plans of Labour's Deputy Leadership candidates - who only see a future for more state-owned and run housing - but helping young people onto the housing ladder through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right to buy.
Changes in perception may be needed as JTC are now looking into heading downwards for spaces housing people -- rather than oil -- in the form of an underground science city.
Nonprofit, low-income housing developers and for-profit developers like AvalonBay Communities (nyse: AVB - news - people ), who use the credits to develop mixed-income rental projects in high-income areas, stand to lose too.
Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
He spent the next two decades building a good name in providing affordable middle-class housing in far-flung suburbs where land was cheap.
And funds to provide low-cost housing for low-income seniors were cut by about 15 percent, although a new program to provide counseling for the elderly seeking affordable housing was funded.
Meanwhile, congressional efforts to encourage wealthy individuals to purchase low-income housing through the passive-loss provision had proven problematic as investors allowed their properties to decline to capture a greater tax write-off.
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"The huge cuts to public spending - 25% in public sector housing and 24% in public non-housing and with a further 10% cuts to both anticipated for 2013 - have left a hole too big for other sectors to fill, " said Judy Lowe, deputy chairman of industry body CITB-ConstructionSkills, said.
The new mayor, Mr Schell, a former dean of the University of Washington's school of architecture (and once a developer himself), knows that higher-density housing needs to be well-designed housing.
Over the last two years, the government has raised downpayment and mortgage requirements, imposed a property tax for the first time in Shanghai and Chongqing, increased construction of low-cost housing and enacted home-purchase restrictions in about 40 cities.
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Now, you cannot - even if the Lib Dems allowed it - introduce a regional benefit cap, or end housing benefit for under-25s and so on - because there is not the time left.
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