The unofficial suggestion that Huw Lewis leaves Housing proves right.
And the housing crisis struck right at the heart of what it means to be middle-class in this country: owning a home.
The coastal council and Suffolk County Council want EDF to fund transport improvements, including an A12 bypass, pay for community benefits including sports pitches and community halls and ensure there is the right housing in place for workers on the project.
And this housing crisis struck right at the heart of what it means to be middle class in America: our homes -- the place where we invest our nest egg, place where we raise our family, the place where we plant roots in a community, the place where we build memories.
In 1980 the roughly three-in-ten families who lived in social rented housing were given the right to buy their homes at subsidised rates.
The prime minister has suggested that people under the age of 25 could lose the right to housing benefit, as part of moves to cut the welfare bill.
"Social housing is not a right, it's a privilege and if you abuse that privilege you really ought to lose it, particularly when it's in such a cynical and blatant way, " he argues.
That's one explanation for why the rental-housing market is very strong right now.
Housing minister Mark Prisk said Right to Buy had "opened the door to home ownership for thousands of tenants across the country".
And then think of the even greater number of people who emulated them, only to get into the housing market in 2007, right before it started heading down.
Wednesday's news comes on the same day U.S. economic data showed the American housing market is still ugly, and inflation remains at disconcerting levels (See "Housing Ugly But Moving In Right Direction").
To help potential buyers, tenants of social housing are to get the right to buy their home - a hallmark of the Thatcher government in the 1980s - for as little as half the market price.
That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.
The only thing the housing market has going for it right now is extremely low interest rates.
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The Supreme Court case dealt with whether federal law allowed landlords who rent to minorities a right to challenge a city housing code.
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So for them to now claim that they understand the public housing crisis to me is just not right if - a cover for that.
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Even better news for the real-estate minded is that some experts see that even if we're not near a bottom of the housing market, we are on the right track.
The government says local communities will be given more control over housing and planning decisions, and the right to buy pubs, shops and libraries when they are put up for sale.
Economists on the left and right have cited the recent housing bust as proof that homes are not great investments, suggesting people would be better off leaving their money to the tender mercies of Wall Street speculators.
The other thing going for the economy right now is an uptick in housing activity.
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His motion encourages the Scottish government to remove the limitations on the right to buy contained in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Michael Stein, owner and managing director of Jersey architect MS Planning, said he did not think this was the right approach to solve the social housing problem.
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The tractor-trailer was hauling a housing for drilling equipment southbound when the top right front corner of the load struck several trusses on the north end of the bridge, the patrol said.
The policy had been pioneered by Lady Thatcher's predecessor as Tory leader, Ted Heath, in the early 1970s, although local councils have had the right to sell off their council housing stock, with ministerial approval, since 1936.
Right now marks the beginning of the housing recovery, the financial recovery and the American consumer recovery.
More than 2, 000 tenants took up the government's Right to Buy discount scheme for social housing in England during the last three months of 2012.
She said that the Wales Office has refused to pass the housing LCO through Parliament unless controversial powers over the right to buy council houses are amended.
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