Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
Just ahead many of the housing projects are coming down in New Orleans, but it isn't the first city to undergo an urban housing makeover.
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Moreover, in Britain the shortage of available land in country areas means that the trend towards urban living may increase despite the rising cost of urban housing.
How can we write without the old serious publications, make movies without risk-taking Hollywood producers, live without cheap urban housing, discover art without the underground, make a career without the circulation-desk jobs?
Two of the most far-reaching reforms of the past 30 years the dismantling of tens of thousands of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the privatisation of urban housing did not take off until the late 1990s.
The Washington Post cites Nicholas Lardy, a respected China-watcher at the Peterson Institute, as saying that urban housing stock accounts for 41% of household wealth in China, compared to 26% in the U.S., though mortgage lending is much more restrictive in China.
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Ms Bokova was impressed by the post-flood recovery works and was particularly interesting in learning about the plans for restoring the historic water management system of Ayutthaya, which had been put in place by the founders of the city but was later abandoned and covered by urban housing and street constructions.
To enable Housing and Urban Development to identify individuals who have defaulted on a Housing and Urban Development obligation and initiate debt collection.
Through my work at a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certified housing counseling agency, I have seen first-hand the devastation to families that lose their home.
As part of the deal, Flagstar admitted that it had submitted false certifications to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, inducing the Federal Housing Administration to accept loans for government insurance that were not eligible and that resulted in losses to HUD when the loans defaulted.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds subsidized housing, is demanding that Galveston build 569 low-income units as part of mixed-income developments, not old-fashioned projects or risk losing more than half a billion dollars in storm-recovery funds the city needs to rebuild infrastructure, such as a water-treatment plant, roads and sidewalks.
Military outlays are not the same as defending America, just as spending money on the Department of Housing and Urban Develop is not the same as housing America.
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"We see it as a win-win for both residents and housing authorities, " says Donna White, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the federal agency that oversees public housing.
Scott Keller, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says the goal of mixed-income housing is to minimize differences between the city's poor and middle-class.
They also boost demand for urban infrastructure and housing, which can boost economic growth.
The segregation not legal, but structural and in urban planning, housing, and limited employment opportunities leads to a form of segregation of drug abuse and prohibition, one version for the wealthier people and another for those in inner cities and poor communities.
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But first, last week, protest turned violent in New Orleans after the city council unanimously voted to allow the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development - that's HUD - to tear down four large public housing projects.
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Groups of this type currently receive some funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development devised five criteria regarding the implementation of purchase restrictions.
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At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sen.
He was Bill Clinton's Housing and Urban Development Secretary and was once married to a Kennedy.
Among other participating agencies are the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Interior, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
Last week, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Associate U.S. Attorney General Thomas J.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has the highest percentage of tax delinquent workers at 4.4 percent.
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Cuomo, the ex-husband of Kennedy's cousin Kerry Kennedy, was the secretary of housing and urban development under President Clinton.
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Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) and Indian Heritage Cities Network (IHCN).
It's a private sector plan, brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson.
The federal government provides help to cities through the Department of Transportation, though the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide.
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