Housing matters hugely to people and yet the subject does not have the political bite to keep it at the top of the news agenda.
Funding will continue for some civil cases including family law involving domestic violence or forced marriage and debt and housing matters where someone's home is at immediate risk.
It is also to signal to Singaporeans that they will receive top priority on all housing policy matters, as it should be for citizens of any country.
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"On my watch there won't be a blind eye turned to anything, that's why over the last number of weeks and couple of months I have been making as assessment of Housing Executive matters, " he said.
This age group really matters for the housing market: their decisions about forming households and homeownership directly affect housing demand.
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.
To make matters worse, most new housing tends to be at the more expensive end of the market.
There, a co-ordinated approach involving housing, local-authority services, schools and police has improved matters, reducing crime and truancy.
And since taking office, my administration has taken a hard look at that relationship -- from matters of infrastructure to transportation, education to energy, housing to sustainable development.
What matters to most Ecuadoreans is not party politics but jobs, housing and basic services.
But for the vast majority of poor black South Africans what matters most are bread-and-butter issues, such as housing, health and education, not the niceties of the law.
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Now clearly, two stock market crashes in 13 years, a housing bust, a deep recession and stagnant wages for most workers have not helped matters.
If the housing market continues to boom, then locking currencies, say in 2004, would make matters worse, since interest rates could no longer be higher than in the euro area.
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