Even the title of the bill, technically HR 3221, was meant to tug at your sensibilities: A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.
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He became a leader on public-housing reform, voted for gay and lesbian domestic-partner health benefits and executed a complicated straddle on abortion--nominally pro-choice but against federal funding and late-term abortions.
The government said it was considering plans for housing reform "to create a fairer and more effective system for those living in rented housing" and to "support aspiration and social mobility".
Then there's a Ten Minute Rule Bill on housing market reform.
In the debate on housing benefit reform on Tuesday 13 March 2012, Huw Lewis AM outlined the wider impact of the changes on health and social services and homelessness figures.
We are designing this to be flexible so that the long-term ownership structure can be adjusted to meet the goals and direction that policymakers may set forth for housing finance reform.
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"The government has repeatedly pledged to reform housing benefit but failed to do so, and cases like this, particularly in the current economic climate, drive home the urgency of the matter, " she said.
I'll submit plans to Congress to phase out within several years Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's federal housing role, reform and make transparent the Federal Reserve, and allow families whose mortgages are "underwater" to deduct losses from the sale of their home in order to get a fresh start in difficult economic times.
The scrutiny panel reviewed plans to reform social housing which included raising rents to 90% of those in the private sector.
It was Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary reforms--deep tax cuts, low inflation, privatizing government-controlled companies and public housing, and labor law reform--that turned this Sceptered Isle from being Europe's perennial sick man into its economic powerhouse (along with Ireland).
It was Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary reforms deep tax cuts, low inflation, privatizing government-controlled companies and public housing, and labor law reform that turned this Sceptered Isle from being Europe's perennial sick man into its (along with Ireland) economic powerhouse.
Charles Schumer of New York, who are pushing for tighter regulation of the mortgage industry and reform of the Federal Housing Authority.
Every major initiative voting rights, open housing, environmental law, campaign reform enjoyed bipartisan support.
Under UK welfare reform plans, social housing tenants will lose a portion of their benefit if they are deemed to be under-occupying their home.
As part of that message, a top NAHB priority is to push for reform of the Federal Housing Administration, a government agency that insures mortgage loans for 1.1 million borrowers annually.
We did not take on the broad question of reform of the GSEs or the broader housing finance market in this bill.
Hispanic appointees work on issues important to Hispanics and all Americans, from the economy and housing, to health care and education, to immigration reform and renewable energy.
While Chicagoans relocated by the program have, more or less, expressed an improvement in quality of life, the housing adjustments have not led to an onslaught of education reform in the city.
Margaret Davidson said welfare reform and the council's plans for temporary housing for homeless people had created a "perfect storm".
Such an outcome is a massive headache, not just for the housing providers and social landlords, but for the whole welfare reform project.
Some of the changes, which will affect those who work and live in council or housing association homes, will start in April under the Welfare Reform Act.
"Certainly, in Britain's case, that remains reform of labour markets and welfare, investing in housing and transport and, above all, it means junking the rhetoric of austerity for an age of enterprise, " he added.
First and most important was to reform the Institute of the National Fund for Workers' Housing.
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Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, modernize the Federal Housing Administration, and allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to help homeowners refinance their mortgages.
The recently passed Welfare Reform Bill will introduce a number of changes to the existing housing benefit system.
Mr Koizumi has reined in one of these, which handles housing loans, but the other eight are still badly in need of reform.
Liam McArthur, the Scottish Liberal Democrat housing spokesperson said the "existing welfare system is in need of radical reform" and "carry on regardless is not an option".
The President opened the meeting by wanting to talk about four specific areas: credit and lending was one, second was housing, the third was executive comp, and the fourth was financial reform.
It says lowering the estate tax "may be the most important reform of all" to keep farmland out of the hands of housing developers.
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