Needless to say, the lack of housing transactions is not good for new housing construction.
If history is any teacher, most will not, and often for uniquely personal reasons (distance, cost, health, family, lack of housing, environmental concerns, public showers).
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"Rising home prices may begin to alleviate a lack of housing inventory ... by encouraging more homeowners to put their properties on the market, " said Maninder Sibia, an economist with Economic Advisory Service, in a note to clients.
Independent research warns that welfare cuts - particularly cuts to housing benefit including the bedroom tax, alongside a chronic lack of social housing - could scupper this progress.
At the least, a lack of affordable housing implies a long commute for the working poor.
Plaid Cymru AM Nerys Evans raised her concerns with the lack of affordable housing in rural Wales.
New Orleans continues to battle problems, including crime and lack of affordable housing.
The scheme at Baker's Piece was devised in 2009 after Miss Waterhouse became concerned about the lack of affordable housing for local people.
Squatting groups say there has been a rise in the practice since the mid-2000s due to a lack of affordable housing, particularly in the South-East of England.
Worries over the poor state of transport infrastructure and the lack of affordable housing, which makes it harder to encourage people to work in Cambridge, were also expressed.
The density of the housing and lack of firefighting equipment mean large numbers of shelters are often destroyed, but Friday's death toll was unusually high.
Andy Firoved, CEO of Homeowner's Toolbox, a housing finance company, says there's a lack of noncontingent inventory, or housing that isn't tied up by short sales and foreclosures.
Tokyoites justly complain of cramped housing, the lack of greenery, and a deteriorating environment.
All of us can focus on the tragedy of urban schools that aren't teaching and dilapidated housing, lack of health care.
The world is hurtling towards population overload, placing billions of people at risk of hunger, thirst, lack of energy and slum housing.
For example, Rebecca Onie was a college sophomore when she realized the connection between poverty and poor health: low-income patients lack basic resources such as food and housing, and the lack of such resources often leads to worse health outcomes.
The community council also objected because of the lack of open land, and an unsuitable mixture of housing is not suitable, "with housing for the elderly and community housing needed instead".
"There is a lack of understanding of what affordable housing means and it is interpreted in different ways by different planning officers".
The group added that a "lack of employment opportunities and affordable housing" meant that young people who left Ludlow to study could "rarely afford to return".
We all know that there are many reasons to be pessimistic about the direction of housing prices, the number 1 reason being the lack of credit.
Indeed, it is possible to find entirely respectable economists (Robert Shiller for example) arguing that it was the lack of options and futures markets in housing that failed to prick the US housing bubble before it blew.
The chairman of Stepney Housing and Development Association, Ken Bartlett, criticises the lack of powers for the public sector to assemble land.
Some community workers say they're depressed that the same problems - affordable housing, transport, lack of services - come up year after year, with nothing really being done to address them.
Housing shortages are exacerbated by lack of available land, by our laborious planning regulations and by a particularly effective green lobby.
The Nationwide, in its more downbeat report, said buyers were still nervous about the economy, and a lack of mortgage availability meant there was relatively little housing market activity during 2012.
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All the recently published data have shown a lack of any impetus of growth in the mortgage and housing markets, according to CML economist Peter Charles.
When housing crashed, it was the lack of new asset backed securities that pushed the economy into recession by freezing up the banking system and destroying consumer and small business credit markets.
Those young people recognized that one of the principal problems facing African-Americans since their arrival in this country was a lack of access -- access to voting booths, decent housing, restaurant service, front seats on buses and quality education.
But Mr Oxley thinks the volume of new housing is only one factor affecting the real issue, which is affordability, or rather the lack of it.
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