But it warned that demand for mortgages might be hindered by the poor state of the economy.
He said school buildings in a poor state would be improved "over time".
Education and health care are other areas in which affluent Brazilians have chosen private provision over poor state services.
Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
He had shown that a disregarded politician from a poor state could challenge the easterners' assumption that they were born to rule.
Owners Alan Macdonald and Richard Johnstone say the poor state of the housing market and the planning system in Scotland forced the decision.
And although domestic football is in a poor state, the global game offers opportunities to sportsmen that rugby players can only dream of.
Many of its Pakefield laboratories and offices are within a 19th Century former hotel which is said to be in a poor state of repair.
Regardless of the poor state of the economy, if you have children, the purchase of at least one toy periodically is a constant in the budget.
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But the problem stems from the poor state of Kazakhstan's agriculture, which has declined since the country became independent on the break-up of the Soviet Union.
The poor state of the global economy had the starring role in gold stocks dismal performance, while rising debt and political unrest also played their own parts.
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Coupled with the poor state of most tribal economies, where employment may be largely seasonal or nonexistent, traditional home loans through banks are out of the question.
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.
Jean Rene Atanagana Mballa, Fecafoot's first vice-president, was unsparing in his criticism of referees, saying their corrupt ways had contributed to the poor state of the national championship.
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Earlier this year, the assembly backed a motion expressing concern at the "poor state" of the public transport system and seeking a comprehensive and integrated policy to be implemented.
The 40-acre site underwent a 12-week programme of drainage and repair work last year, but months of rain and snow has left it in a poor state, the council said.
The poor state of public transport and infrastructure generally played a large part in the ejection of Labor governments in New South Wales in March and in Victoria last November.
There is a big debate in Moroccan football at the moment about the poor state of the game, with the national team disappointing at the African Cup of Nations in Ghana last month.
At that time, much of the world's documentary heritage was in a poor state of preservation, which was worsened by war and social upheaval, lack of resources, and ignorance of the importance of this heritage.
It seems as if India's influential Planning Commission realised this when it warned that the poor state of the country's economy was being forgotten amid the political crisis being faced by the United Front government.
The BABs program, which enabled borrowers normally confined to the muni market to tap a broader universe of big investors, has helped insulate muni bonds from the effects of generally poor state and local government finances.
The rise of homeopathy, crystal healing, and all that jazz are worrisome, and their increasing popularity says a lot about the poor state of science education and the loss of faith in the health care industry.
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The move initially appeared to have misfired, as other extreme parties, notably on the left side of the political spectrum, picked up on growing dissatisfaction with the poor state of the economy and the prolonged euro crisis.
In 2007, the salaries of military personnel were raised on two occasions and in 2008 the government addressed the poor state of military housing with a building and mortgage scheme, wrote Mark Gay over at The Moscow News.
"The most pressing problem is that the mechanical and electrical systems are in a poor state of repair, which is why we have embarked on a five-year programme of aggressive maintenance to mitigate against the most serious equipment failures, " he said.
His private villa on the outskirts of the city is in a poor state and his once prestigious mansion in his hometown of Arthington, some 40km (25 miles) west of Monrovia, is in ruins and covered by overgrown vegetation, our correspondent says.
The authority rates all but three of the basin's 23 river valleys as being in a poor ecological state.
The populists shout louder, and claim that they are helping the poor through state control of oil and gas.
At first, the results were poor: state and city governments spent their increased revenues as badly as the federal government had before.
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