Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would start worrying about too much easy credit, raise standards for loans and disqualify buyers unlikely to be able to afford houses.

房地美和房利美应当为过分容易拿到的贷款感到担心，应当提高贷款标准并且淘汰那些有可能交不起按揭的买家。

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Some brides simply see India as more livable these days. As salaries have gone up there, Indian married couples are able to afford houses, and young women with jobs have money of their own.

如今，一些待嫁的印度女孩觉得在本国生活挺好，随着工资水平的提高，印度的男女青年结婚后能置得起房，有工作的年轻女子有自己的积蓄。

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Houses in the village are now too pricey for local people to afford.

如今该村庄的房价太高，当地人根本买不起。

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If we want more people to be able to afford houses in the long-run, a two-year tax holiday for home-buyers isn't the way to do it.

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Even upper-middle-class natives find themselves unable to afford houses in some parts of the city-state, such as Sentosa Cove, where more than 60 percent of the houses are owned by foreigners.

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Peterson said auditors like Warren basically were hired to find the bad apples in the barrel and pull them out: borrowers with payments they couldn't afford, houses with inflated appraisals, people lying about their income.

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