This net saved the lives of nineteen men during the construction.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

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"In the moratorium just announced by the government of Israel, there will be no new housing construction starts during the 10-month period.,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

People lived on the edge of death." During the frequent droughts, Mohamed Ait Lamine and others left their families to look for work on construction sites in cities far away.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11