But a big reason why young people leave rural areas, for example, is lack of jobs, not lack of housing.

但是，年轻一代人离开乡村地区的一个主要原因，是缺乏工作机会，而不是缺少住房。

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In the first place, with the rapid increase in population, the lack of housing is becoming more evident than ever before.

首先，随着人口的飞速增长，房屋的不足变得比以前都更加明显…

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A new steel works has just been set up. So there's not much lack of work. There is however, surprise, surprise-an acute lack of housing.

建了一座新钢厂，于是就业机会相当充足了；然而，不出所料，住房却紧张起来。

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The lack of housing is also a big issue,partly because of the years of conflict, which have not given us a clear idea of how many homes have actually been destroyed in Afghanistan or badly damaged.

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Now, most of you will say someone that wealthy surely we can tax them to meet the pressing needs of people who lack in education or lack enough to eat or lack decent housing.

你们很多人会说,这么有钱的人，我们当然可以向他收税,以满足那些得不到教育,缺乏食物或者无家可归者的迫切需求。

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More recently it stood unoccupied until a group of young squatters moved in two weeks ago, to protest the lack of jobs and affordable housing in France.

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Needless to say, the lack of housing transactions is not good for new housing construction.

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If history is any teacher, most will not, and often for uniquely personal reasons (distance, cost, health, family, lack of housing, environmental concerns, public showers).

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"Rising home prices may begin to alleviate a lack of housing inventory ... by encouraging more homeowners to put their properties on the market, " said Maninder Sibia, an economist with Economic Advisory Service, in a note to clients.

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