The National Audit Office said increasing housing allowances in line with inflation rather than local rents could lead to "significant problems".
The government says it wants to bring social housing tenants in line with its provision in the private sector, where size criteria already apply.
Obama has largely pursued a pretty centrist line on housing policy.
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Looking ahead, gasoline prices have fallen for six straight weeks and should prove supportive for discretionary spending as households express relief and keep investors moderately happy about the U.S. this week providing existing housing sales falls in line with consensus estimates.
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Both readings on the housing market were roughly in line with expectations, and bolstered shares of home builders.
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He said the current system recognised rising costs of food, fuel and housing by giving benefit rises in line with inflation.
A. Gary Shilling says it will take another 20% drop in housing prices to bring them in line with their historical trend.
Housing starts broke through resistance (line a) in late 2011.
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The railroads tote building materials and the ongoing problems in the housing market must be impacting their bottom line.
The city had sought bids for the project, initially conceived in 2007 as another in a line of Bloomberg-backed housing developments on which construction would begin before the mayor left office.
It is my view that going forward, until this last collapse has been forgotten, housing is going to revert to its trend line growth of 2-3% per year.
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The housing committee has set up a hot-line for protesters to register for one of about 150 spots at the churches, and the person must be on the list when they check in each evening.
Within the next year or so those bubbles are likely to burst, leading to falls in average real house prices of 15-20% in America and 30% or more elsewhere over the next few years, in line with average price declines during past housing-market busts.
It was an unofficial stance against manufactured housing, and Stacey and her peers had drawn a line in the sand.
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The line-up this year: Credit and housing markets, export growth, health care, tax policy, infrastructure, alternative energy and improving economic statistics.
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In the chart below, you can see that housing continues to be flat, as depicted by the red line.
Mr Hibbert, the member for housing, transport and planning, said the Rochdale to Oldham line was the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken in the area and would help regeneration plans.
Las Adjuntas lies at the end of the line, wedged into a narrow valley crammed with slum housing.
The company will perform well over the remainder of 2011 and through 2012 even as the housing market remains weak and the unemployment rate is elevated, says Value Line analyst Ian Gendler.
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Net earnings were propelled by top-line growth with a steady recovery in the U.S. housing market driving consumer appetite for home improvement products.
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Although the exact numbers of smokers in housing projects are unknown, about 30 percent of Americans living below the poverty line smoke tobacco, more than 1.5 times the rate of those who live above it.
Bottom line, you would have fewer defaults, fewer repossession additions to the housing inventory, and increased confidence that the crisis was ending.
Mr. Martin said that going into a "new line of business" was the "next logical step" for the housing group at a time when its traditional role of helping build housing has been shrinking along with funding for government housing programs.
Former Bronx borough president and federal housing official Adolfo Carrion, a former Democrat who is now unaffiliated, is running on the Independence Party line and seeking Republican backing.
If house prices in general are moving in line with the price of a typical house, this approach gives a good guide to changes in housing wealth, which is what matters for the Bank of England as it assesses the economy.
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