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Beyond supply-side structural adjustments, China must ensure that its new growth strategy addresses “last mile” demand-side problems of urban and human development, including traffic jams, infrastructure bottlenecks, housing shortages, underdeveloped waste-management services, and inadequate education and health care.
It raised the death toll of Iran’s recent earthquake, owing to substandard housing construction ten years ago.
Under communism, significant efforts were made to assimilate Roma; they were given jobs, albeit at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and were assured housing.
This knee-jerk reaction presumes that China’s current slowdown is but a prelude to more growth disappointments to come – a presumption that reflects widespread and longstanding fears of a broad array of disaster scenarios, ranging from social unrest and environmental catastrophes to housing bubbles and shadow-banking blow-ups.
Thus, the explosion of CDOs in the United States during the housing boom was predicated upon the shaky assumption that house prices never fall nationwide.
When the US housing market started to turn south, the biggest underwriters (such as Countrywide) did not go bankrupt right away, because they had sold the vast majority of their loans to the CDO market.
And the housing market has improved, with construction lowering unemployment.
Existing public statistics, it is believed, do not provide enough relevant information to analyze the possibility of discrimination in employment or housing.
And local experts facilitated the examination of 14 aspects of Foshan’s growth over the last 35 years: industry, land, transport, electricity, water, finance, employment, governance, planning, public finance, education, housing, health care, and pensions.
More than half of Foshan’s population and two-thirds of its workforce are migrants, who have access to the same social services as locals, owing to reforms in vocational training, health care, housing, and social security.
Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.
According to the Reinharts’ paper, when compared to the decade that precedes financial crises like the one that started three years ago, “GDP growth and housing prices are significantly lower and unemployment higher” in the subsequent “ten-year window.”
Yes, there was a bubble in the housing market, but it was no worse, current Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in 2005, than a “good-sized bump in the road.”
Yes to Affordable Housing in My BackyardZURICH – From London to Lagos, “affordable housing” has become an oxymoron.
In most cities, rents and home prices have increased faster than incomes, and in urban areas with robust job markets, housing stocks have failed to keep pace with demand.
Some 330 million urban households either live in substandard housing, or pay more for their housing than they can afford.
Without affordable housing, people suffer and economies stagnate.
California’s housing shortage illustrates the problem.
Today, amid a total housing shortfall of two million units, half of the state’s residents cannot afford to buy homes in their local market.
Subsidies, low-interest loans, and rent control may bring relief to households struggling with affordability, but these measures will not solve the housing shortage.
The first challenge is location; finding affordable land is one of the biggest constraints on housing development virtually everywhere.
A 2016 analysis of Los Angeles’s housing stock by the McKinsey Global Institute found that 28% of parcels zoned for multifamily development were underutilized.
Maximizing this development potential could add more than 300,000 units to the city’s housing inventory.
Proposals to increase housing density are frequently met by opposition from current residents, whose fears range from adverse impact on services to downward pressure on existing home values (or upward pressure and gentrification).
As a result, very little affordable housing is built.
And, because housing availability affects companies’ ability to attract talent, employers near proposed housing sites must also be engaged.
City governments can win support for new housing by convincing constituents that population growth fuels economic growth.
The alternative – allowing serious housing shortages to go unaddressed – will make it impossible for future generations to put down roots.
In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, growth in high-income countries was propelled by spending on housing and private consumption.
For many years we have been campaigning for housing futures, but no exchange wanted to use such indices to create a futures market until now.
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