Increasing the amount of developed land by a third would address the housing shortage, according to Planning Minister Nick Boles.
Last year he promised to solve a chronic housing shortage by building 85, 000 new apartments a year.
Sir Adrian was asked for ways to tackle the UK's housing shortage, especially in the private rental sector.
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The site itself is tiny, and on top of that there is a housing shortage, since many of the St.
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That still leaves a big housing shortage, though, in a state where more than 200, 000 homes were destroyed by the hurricanes.
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"As long as the housing shortage persists, we have no alternative but to restrict external demand and curb speculative activities, " he said.
Residents claim this will overwhelm services and destroy the area's rural character but the council said a housing shortage had to be addressed.
Homex impressed him because the demand for low cost housing in Mexico is virtually unlimited: there is a four million unit housing shortage.
Originally a stopgap solution to a 1960s housing shortage, the boats have become as intrinsic to the city as its stately, narrow town houses.
So, in fact, do the Israelis, official chat about a housing shortage notwithstanding and that is why they are so keen to see Har Homa built.
One reason for optimism is that the Bharatiya Janata Party, which controls the national government, also governs Mumbai and Delhi, where the housing shortage is most acute.
While most people agreed there was a nationwide housing shortage, 45% opposed building new houses in their areas - a figure that rose to 58% in outer London.
Owners of empty homes in a Kent town could be forced to sell their properties as part of a council scheme to ease a housing shortage in the area.
Henry Pryor from HousingExpert.net said the plan could be the most controversial change to the planning system since the War though a "potential solution to the acute housing shortage we have at present".
Mrez, a Harvard Law School graduate who studied the Latin American housing market for three years as a Kellogg Foundation fellow, is convinced that U.S.-style mortgage financing can help relieve the region's housing shortage.
But Shelter says research by experts at Cambridge University found that the 90, 000 houses the government is aiming to build between 2008 to 2011 falls well short of what is required to confront the country's housing shortage.
The second half of his book, which deals with everything from political history to the decline of trades unions and the impact of a housing shortage, feels overly compressed, with too many ideas chasing too few pages.
However, the fact that these still numbered just over 20 meant that many in the industry only regarded this as niche part of the market, and nothing like sufficient to make a dent in the housing shortage.
The city's rent regulations date back to the post-World War I era, when a severe housing shortage caused by an influx of returning troops and a dearth of new construction prompted Albany to adopt an emergency rent law.
In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.
And basically what we - the case that we make is that in a time of extreme housing shortage in New Orleans, it makes no sense to destroy perfectly livable unit when people want to come back home and indeed are prevented from coming back home because of affordable housing.
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Brazil's overall housing shortage shrank, slowly, from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, as public and private developments managed to keep ahead of the swelling population though, during that period, many migrants exchanged a shack in the countryside for another in the burgeoning favelas, giving city-dwellers the impression of a deterioration.
Investors who are bullish on the U.K. housing market also point to the scarcity of land in the U.K. and to an overall shortage of housing.
Mumbai is also facing a shortage of housing in many areas, helping to drive up places.
Critics say little has been achieved to address a severe shortage of housing and schools on the reserves.
"Camden has a severe shortage of housing, yet every year thousands of properties are left vacant by private landlords and second homes continue to enjoy a tax break, " said councillor Theo Blackwell.
The spur to the rethink is the acute shortage of affordable housing, particularly in London and the south-east.
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