They sure are, and the latest big ticket sales show just how much Shanghai housing cost averages have gone up.
Plus, Bay Ridge's lower housing cost allows them to have a larger space to raise their daughter and display their work.
Since then, the cost per child has been set at the marginal cost of an additional bedroom, lowering the housing cost by between 22% and 45%, depending on the region.
The art of corporate strategy is to capture the cost-saving and revenue-enhancing benefits of having many different businesses under the same corporate roof while limiting how much the problems of that common housing cost the corporate parent.
But they all had as an important part of their methodology a focus on price, including the cost of housing, the cost of living and the state tax environment, including state income and estate taxes.
The City Council speaker's proposal for so-called permanent affordable housing is attracting resistance from many low-cost housing advocates, but one of them has become the plan's most active supporter.
The City Council speaker's proposal for so-called permanent affordable housing is attracting resistance from many low-cost housing advocates, who say it would make some types of buildings harder to finance and result in fewer units overall.
Planned changes to housing benefit will cost NI more money than it saves, two housing associations have claimed.
Low-cost housing and dwellings in townships have not been spared from the rising prices either.
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The size of our government now extends to guaranteeing citizens low or no-cost housing, food, education and medical care.
The government has agreed to spend billions in new, low cost housing as more nad more Chinese move to cities.
The housing contracts had cost considerably more than originally planned and had been, on average, two-and-a-half years late, it added.
Private developers will not build low-cost housing in the absence of subsidies, and local governments are generally in a precarious financial condition.
The proposal has set off a debate among developers of low-cost housing.
Homex impressed him because the demand for low cost housing in Mexico is virtually unlimited: there is a four million unit housing shortage.
But the iShack's developers say that slum dwellers usually have to wait for years for power and water grids or low-cost housing to arrive.
And developers are including some low-cost housing in their building plans.
As state senator, he acted upon a strong real estate interest, co-authoring an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for low-cost housing developers.
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When Spain's fiscal-stimulus package provided funds to build low-cost housing, it was criticised for spurring more construction in a country that had already seen too much.
It's not enough to build low-cost housing, says Bruce Katz, founder of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, and there is no massive investment coming from the federal government.
Both Mr Toledo and Ms Flores claim to be committed to fiscal prudence and a market economy, but want to boost jobs with a crash programme of low-cost housing.
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.
Reserving new low-cost housing for local workers makes sense.
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We are likely to see the reverse innovation phenomenon in a wide range of industries such as ultra-low-cost transportation, renewable energy, clean water, micro finance, affordable health, low-cost housing, and many others.
While the general trend has been for supermarkets to relocate to out-of-town locations, Tesco Kensington - on an urban site - was one of the first supermarket developments that included low-cost housing.
But now, for the first time, ministers are questioning whether the right to buy has not become a lucrative windfall for a few at the expense of the many in need of low-cost housing.
His father, who died in a plane crash in 1981, is fondly remembered by many Panamanians for his social policies, including low-cost housing and better access for the poor to education and health care.
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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The result is that, although developers often promise to include low-cost housing as part of new developments, the expensive houses generally get built first because they are the most profitable, and homes for poorer families stay stuck on the drawing-board.
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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