This year's target represents a 70% increase in the construction of social housing compared with 2010 (see chart).
Until 2008, the Spanish economy was regarded as one of the most dynamic within the EU. However, the mainstays of the economy were tourism and a booming housing market and construction industry, and so the global economic crisis of 2008-9 hit the country hard.
The State Council called for the construction of government-subsidised housing to be stepped up.
The party also plans a big increase in the construction of government-subsidised housing.
Some of this rural-income growth has been generated by the spate of housing construction (Bianba Tsering's brickmaking business has been an obvious beneficiary).
Also Thursday, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to withdraw from 10 percent of the West Bank, a much larger area than expected, if Arafat's self-rule government quietly accepted construction of the Jewish housing development.
We have also seen, because of the housing bubble that burst, construction workers out of work.
But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.
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Needless to say, the lack of housing transactions is not good for new housing construction.
And when millions of construction workers have found themselves out of work since the housing bubble burst, it will put them back to work doing the work that America needs done.
And the hundreds of thousands of construction workers -- many of them Latino -- who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst, I want to put them back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and new schools and airports all across the country.
The idea of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating lots of jobs for construction workers sidelined by the housing market slump sure seemed like a good one.
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Whether the ONS will feel the same way about other schemes to support investment in housing, construction or other parts of the real economy is less clear.
The slump in housing construction, the decline of newspapers and a trend toward less packaging and waste all have contributed.
Those loans are the poisonous legacy of a housing and construction boom that saw 5 million new homes built between 1997 and 2007, twice the increase in new Spanish households.
The claims have been important in 2010 as many companies have slowed down their recruiting as trepidation about the economy persisted, and as thousands of jobs related to the housing market, particularly in construction, were eliminated.
You've got millions of construction workers who've been laid off as a consequence of the housing bubble going bust who are ready to get on the job.
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The fall of the housing market has contributed to a large decrease in mortality in construction: Annual fatalities in the industry have fallen by 42% since 2006, and are down 7% from 2010.
While high fuel prices would logically make smaller and more efficient models in greater demand, and thus demand higher prices, NADA says that used full-size pickups are commanding premium prices these days, with depreciation at about half the rate of the average auto, due in part to the healthier housing and construction sectors.
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There are over a million construction workers out of work after the housing boom went bust, just as a lot of America needs rebuilding.
Right now, there are over a million construction workers out of work after the housing boom went bust, just as a lot of America needs rebuilding.
Underlying this economic recovery is an improvement in the state of private sector balance sheets, which contrasts with the traditional view that housing construction will lead the way out.
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Those infrastructure projects could employ a lot of construction workers -- including a lot of Latino construction workers -- who were laid off after the housing bubble burst.
The city had sought bids for the project, initially conceived in 2007 as another in a line of Bloomberg-backed housing developments on which construction would begin before the mayor left office.
The recovery in the U.S. housing market is fueling the growth of pickups, which are used extensively for construction activities.
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Since the housing bubble burst, millions of construction workers have had to look for a job.
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The current flap over housing construction's run rate of 500, 000 plus is misplaced.
The report notes that, in addition to getting loan priority, the government will take steps to promote increased construction of affordable housing.
But the drying up of financing for housing purchases and construction has led to a drying up of housing transactions in Spain.
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