But, as prices have fallen, many of them can now afford a nicer private flat.
Number 10 are for now sticking to the line that what happens in David Cameron's private flat is, well, private.
Not enough, admittedly, to feed through into either private business investment (flat) or retail-sales growth (falling).
Demand for private health insurance remained flat throughout the 1990s, despite rising incomes, suggesting that the market may be saturated.
The charges relate to a poem that 37-year-old Mohammed al-Ajami, a father of four, recited in 2010 before a small, private audience in his flat in Egypt.
Weaker construction of hotels, manufacturing facilities and health care facilities in the private sector left January construction spending flat with December, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.
Private-sector demand is now flat and the public purse flatter.
In terms of real, private sector growth, the US has been flat for a decade.
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The spacious double king deluxe room features a king-size bed, 42-inch flat-screen TV and a private bath with shower.
With consumption declining and investment flat, net exports are the only private sector source of support for the economy.
"If you ask for the prime minister's diary, when Rupert Murdoch visits Number 10, if he goes downstairs it's published but if he has a meeting in the flat, it's considered a private meeting, " he told BBC News.
The company and its chief executive, Carol Bartz, are grappling with issues including flat revenue, executive departures and news that private-equity firms have been exploring deal possibilities that include merging Yahoo with AOL Inc.
The growth rate in Hong Kong suggests that a 15% flat tax rate yields the optimal combination of robust private growth and healthy government tax receipts.
The problem that all pension plans are now facing, not just public ones but private ones as well, is that the stock market has been flat for over ten years.
Far from being bland and medicinal, the interior of the bus features a flat-screen TV, a lounge area and four private bunks to get a few more minutes of shut-eye.
They found a spacious private room with a pullout sofa bed, a family bath and large flat-screen TV.
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"Most of us have rented a flat or house at some stage in our lives and the private rented sector is, at its best, a vital provider of good housing, " said housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper.
During the 1996 New Hampshire GOP primary, Romney, a private citizen at the time, paid for an advertisement criticizing Steve Forbes' signature flat tax on the grounds that it was a giveaway to the ultra-rich.
Productivity has been flat in the public sector at a time when it has doubled in the private sector.
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On January 30th the Conference Board, a private research group in New York, said that its confidence index, which had been expected to remain flat, had edged up slightly.
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We are pressing ahead with our flat-producing programme for public housing and are planning a land bank that will cater for demand from private developers.
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