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Local governments worry about how far from the coast new residential areas should be built, amplifying concerns about the future for people who are being forced to live with strangers in temporary housing in an unfamiliar area.
These include “vertical inequalities,” like skewed income distribution, as well as “horizontal inequalities,” such as those that exist within groups because of factors like race, gender, and ethnicity, and those that form between communities, owing to residential segregation.
Household debt has fallen to levels last seen in the early 1990’s, real household net worth has returned to its pre-recession peak, and residential investment as a share of GDP is rising.
Hard Wisdom for Scarce WaterCAMBRIDGE – In California, residential consumers are being fined for wasting water.
The goal is to combat a severe drought by reducing residential consumption by 20%.
The trouble is that residential water use accounts for less than 15% of total consumption.
With the murder of peaceful protesters, the shelling of residential quarters, the execution of soldiers who refuse to fire on their countrymen, and the use of chemical weapons, a picture has emerged of a regime that is systematically defying the most basic international moral and legal standards.
Timber has always been an important building material, and remains so for residential construction in places like the United States, Scandinavia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
In Mexico, the market for new low-and middle-income housing has grown rapidly, thanks to the creation of a market for residential mortgage securities in 2003.
Moreover, this same sharp turnaround occurred in many countries – and for many assets, including oil prices, gold, and, in some countries, residential real estate.
Shifting to a low-carbon energy system will therefore require considerable planning, long lead times, dedicated financing, and coordinated action across many parts of the economy, including energy producers, distributors, and residential, commercial, and industrial consumers.
Moreover, commercial real estate is beginning to follow the downward trend in residential real estate.
The expatriate workers staffing Luanda’s office towers and occupying its fancy residential neighborhoods complained that it was the most expensive city in the world.
Three-quarters of rich countries’ CO2 emissions come from just four types of infrastructure: power generation, residential and commercial buildings, transport, and waste management.
In a more fragmented fashion, states established incentives for energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings.
A residential solar-power system consists of just three components: the PV modules, a battery storage unit, and a charge controller.
Many residential systems break down after 3-5 years when the battery dies, undermining confidence in the system among owners who assumed that they had a lifetime supply of energy.
In addition, our own research team is currently exploring ways to rejuvenate old solar or car batteries – without requiring any chemical treatment or disassembly – for re-use in a residential solar-power system.
After the government clamped down on lending for residential and commercial projects, risky shadow banking activity surged.
Commercial and high-end residential investment has been excessive, automobile capacity has outstripped even the recent surge in sales, and overcapacity in steel, cement, and other manufacturing sectors is increasing further.
A longer-term solution will require the authorities to address the fact that demand for a limited supply of residential property is high and rising, owing to the rapid flow of often-young Chinese talent to cities that offer access to economic opportunities, not to mention better public infrastructure.
While total construction spending recently rose by a very small 0.3% (less than the measurement error), private construction spending actually fell and residential construction was down a much more significant 4%.
The positive effect of the stimulus package is simply not large enough to offset the negative impact of dramatically lower household wealth, declines in residential construction, a dysfunctional banking system that does not increase credit creation, and the downward spiral of house prices.
In the background of this legal and moral failure is major cheerleading about the Bin Laden raid, in which a US Navy SEAL team swarmed a compound in a residential Pakistani neighborhood and assassinated a lot of people.
Yousef seethed with resentment about the discovery of his “Bojinka” (explosives) cell in Manila the month before and vowed:We will take the harshest of measures in order that all Filipino interests inside and outside the Philippines will be subject to destruction....Our measures will include assassinating prominent figures, foremost among them the Filipino President (RAMOS)....We also have the ability to use chemicals and poisonous gas against vital institutions, residential populations, and drinking water sources...
The first factor is diminishing returns to capital, which weakened the growth-enhancing effects of, say, investment in transport infrastructure and residential construction.
Many banks have already acknowledged their open-ended losses in residential mortgages.
In addition to tempering debt problems, a short burst of moderate inflation would reduce the real (inflation-adjusted) value of residential real estate, making it easier for that market to stabilize.
And in 2006 and 2007, losses of residential construction jobs were offset by an increase in blue-collar jobs supporting business investment and exports.
The 30% mainly consists of four components – capital spending by firms, net exports (exports less imports), residential construction, and government purchases.
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