On the plus side, housing is finally turning into a positive factor after a long decline.
It is a very old plant, surrounded by the Thames on one side and housing estates on the other.
On the positive side, the outlook for housing continued to improve, with housing starts up 30% over the past year.
If executed well, the initiative, as Brad Plumer notes, would bring relief to the two weights pulling the housing market on either side.
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Now, when most businesses are making profits , but remain stagnant in growth, that says our economy has stumbled into a balance, with a small nod to the growth side, without any significant growth in housing since it hit bottom, .
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On the flip side, just about anything to do with housing, from furniture makers to hardware stores, remains depressed.
Demand is high for housing in neighbourhoods on the west side that have easy access to the MAX, while on the east side, the lightrail is less of a factor.
At a housing block with Dio painted on the side, six elderly women sit chatting on park benches.
The new building for Watermoor Primary will be built close to the new Beeches housing development being constructed on the eastern side of Cirencester.
The only other noticeable breaks from the flush metal housing are a curious division surrounding the side-mounted dedicated hardware keys (power, volume rocker and camera button) and a flimsy flap on the opposite edge that hides ports for micro-HDMI and micro-USB.
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He worked with South Side residents to force the city to remove asbestos from housing projects.
It doesn't exactly make the most of the rig's requisite thickness, housing only a Blu-ray drive on its starboard side, flanked by a pair of USB 2.0 ports.
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He wants HUD to be more than the department of subsidised housing, and hopes to focus too on the urban development side.
The east side of town, across Highway 35, had traditionally been overlooked, but housing prices and new developments are forcing potential buyers to pay attention.
On the plus side, interest rates will remain very low, and a rebound in the housing market will stimulate job growth for young people where it is needed most.
The family lived modestly in the top floor of a multifamily house on a side street in Cambridge, the friend said, helped partly by Section 8 housing funds and the largess of their landlord, an elderly woman who also tutored and helped the family place the children in good local schools.
On the residential side, private construction companies experienced disproportionately tough business trends in 2007 and 2008 as the housing market collapsed.
As my colleague Morgan Brennan noted in a recent post, amenities at the 63-acre Fair Field estate include not one but three dining rooms, three swimming pools sitting side by side, two courtyards, an orangery, a 164-seat screening theater and a pavilion housing a basketball court, a gym, and a 2-lane bowling alley.
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As a side effect, the Los Angeles financier may also contribute to the solution to the U.S. housing crisis.
But there's a less desirable side to this new boom: It is fueled by the same kind of government super-subsidy for housing that drove the boom and bust a decade ago.
And it is probably better to err on the side of overstating the problem than understating it because there is growing concern about the extent to which the housing market can recover from the subprime crisis.
On the other side of the Charles river, in Boston itself, Northeastern University is helping to build the country's first housing project for both students and city residents.
Also chosen was the Bourne estate on the east side of Poole which although located in the same town as upscale Sandbanks, has a large proportion of council, housing association owned and privately rented accommodation, and high levels of anti-social behaviour.
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