Interview: Mayor Thomas Menino discusses housing crisis in AmericaBOB EDWARDS
it is handsome — a buff-brick building with clean, well-lighted rooms and a congenial staff. The other night when I dropped by, they were serving birthday cake in the lounge in honor of Vicky, a large black woman in a yellow sweater. A volunteer from the community...
housing shortage N→ crisis f inv de la viviendahousing stock N→ total m de viviendashousing subsidy N→ subsidio m por vivienda Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, ...
Is there a housing(住房供给)crisis in America? Or are we simply in need of adjusting a system that already works? The answers to these questions axe vital, especially for those in the real estate (房地产) industry, including homebuyers and sellers, real estate practitioners, home builders, ...
Some would say “what about the banking crisis, the recession?” What about them? Yes, those are the big problems we should worry about. But they have little to do with building a few too many houses. Those failed mortgages were mostly re-fis, as people used their houses as ATMs. Or...
The problem with todays housing crisis, politically, is that it is just not all that visible. At the end of the Second World War, families with kids【C1】___into shared houses. In 1946, more than 46,000 families took over military camps, empty hotels and flats. That was a(n) 【C2...
The biggest single factor behind the housing crisis is rising unemployment. According to the latest ABC-Washington Post poll, one out of every three Americans has either lost their job or lives in a household with someone who has lost a job. Today it takes two and sometimes three incomes to...
The United States is slogging through a housing affordability crisis that was decades in the making. At the root of this problem: America failed to build enough homes for its growing population. The shortage strikes at the heart of the American dream of homeownership —...
It is hard not to feel unease at the spectacle America’s housing market is making of itself. House prices have risen 13% on the year, the biggest jump since before the 2007-09 financial crisis. Inventories of homes for sale have plummeted: there ...
To address the affordability crisis, advocates urge an increase in housing subsidies and strengthened protections for renters from dramatic rent hikes. “Zoning is key to understanding why housing is so expensive and why we’re not providing housing to folks who need it,” Freemark said. “The ...