house-building

• “With the government poised to announce measures in the budget this week to kick-start house-building by liberalising planning laws, East Coker's dilemma could be the first of many similar disputes, albeit without the literary edge.”

  The Guardian: East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion

• “The Vanderbilts astonished everyone by their rapid house-building, by the opulent European architectural styles and treasures imported to America, and particularly their boldness in building quite far up Fifth Avenue.”

  The Four Hundred | Edwardian Promenade

• “By a happy coincidence, house-building is one of the best stimulators of the economy: It employs a lot of people on average wages, who then spend their money quickly in a "multiplier effect.”

  The Huffington Post: Johann Hari: The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster

• “To mention only a handful of the scores of casualties seems a nonsense, but still: benefits, as we know, are in line for swingeing reductions; there are serious fears that tens of thousands of police officers will go; train fares will rise; house-building will shrink; libraries will close; care for disabled people will suffer; help for the arts will drop.”

  The Guardian: Spending review 2010: living with the cuts

• “That first phase? of calibrated confrontation with Israel? reached a climax in March, when Vice-President Joe Biden visited the country only to be greeted by the announcement of more house-building in east Jerusalem.”

  The Guardian: Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. But it's gone very wrong

• “On top of this, house-building activity is likely to be limited by persistently weak housing market activity, soft prices and a worrisome outlook, he said in a note.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Construction Slows

• “She cites a house-building project whose $150 million left 20% with the originating aid agency, a further 20% at a Washington-based contractor, and an additional 20% with a third organization, which then hired a subcontractor.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell?

• “In the escalating battle between the countryside lobby and the government over a new national planning policy framework NPPF, that should be a guiding principle as the number of households massively outstrips house-building.”

  The Guardian: We need more homes, not baffling desperation

• “The government's new framework recognises this shortfall, instructing local authorities to update their five-year house-building plans and to increase their construction targets by 20%.”

  The Guardian: Activists prepare for battle to save countryside from the developers

• “The Environmental Protection Agency says house-building permits more than doubled since 2000 in the downtowns and close-in suburbs of 26 of the nation's largest metro areas.”

  Houses of 2020 will be all about energy

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