Encouraged by rising prices, London housing developers are cranking up production, particularly on sites along the Thames River.
Campaigners say six tennis courts, a football pitch and the main playground will go in a deal with housing developers.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which now owns the land, said it would be asking housing developers to invest there in 2013.
The site was described as "not fit for purpose" by the former police authority and the land was marketed to housing developers.
Housing developers have expressed concerns about the imminent implementation of the CIL, saying it could actually end up making land more expensive.
"On accounting fraud, we're looking at housing developers who may have reported cash reserve accounts to reflect falsely inflated values, " he told CNN.
It says lowering the estate tax "may be the most important reform of all" to keep farmland out of the hands of housing developers.
Unplanned sprawl leads to a shortage of green space, strains transport systems, and makes it hard for businesses or housing developers to find sites.
His argument goes like this: because there is a relatively short supply of land on the market, a handful of housing developers dominate the market.
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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"What we're trying to do is to get housing developers to install these cells as part of the house itself as they build it, " said SMUD's Colin Taylor.
Housing developers want to build and bankers are anxious to finance, but local citizens and municipalities fight housing development every way they can, primarily with lawsuits and lengthy delays.
"These initiatives will ensure that housing developers maintain the confidence of mortgage lenders, and help facilitate the process of buying a new home, " a Home Builders Federation spokesman said.
Councils are grabbing an increasing share of rising land prices by bumping up the amount of social housing developers must build as part of a new scheme and hand over to the local housing association.
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.
In fact, the LIHTC became a catalyst for one of the most significant injections of corporate dollars into the inner city in the history of this country, providing tax abatements for corporations and giving rise to a host of community-based housing developers and the nonprofit, locally based organizations that lobbied for more housing for low-income individuals and families.
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It would depart from three decades of city housing policy, developers and advocates said.
However, Mr. Leggett expects to see construction lending begin to rise in the next few quarters as an improving housing market spurs more developers to build new projects.
Ms. Quinn's plan would, through state legislation, create a new city tax credit for affordable housing developments and require developers who receive the subsidy to renew the below-market rate aspects of their buildings every 30 years, at the city's request.
He formed the Housing Partnership in 1982 to work with public agencies and private developers on middle-income housing, mostly on surplus city-owned land.
Councils, housing associations, builders and developers have until 20 December to apply to join the scheme.
It also gave millions of dollars of tax breaks to developers to build housing for homeless people.
Residents of a rural housing estate are unhappy with developers for leaving the area like a "building site".
Three Ministry of Defence sites in Bath earmarked for housing have been sold to developers, the MoD has confirmed.
Deputy Judy Martin said the policy was the only tool to get developers to build social housing.
The bill will relax rules on developers to deliver social housing, and make it easier to install broadband infrastructure.
However, he said the policy where developers must include social housing in private developments of six homes or more was not being pursued.
She founded Common Ground in 1990, and presided over its growth into one of the largest developers of permanent supportive housing in the country for more than 20 years until leaving to launch Community Solutions in 2011 with a new national strategy.
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But the demonstrators spurn this, saying it will make the developers richer but not make housing cheaper.
They have played for time by refinancing loans to struggling property developers ever since the 2008 housing bust.
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