It is an intriguing policy for a number of reasons, not least because some would say it is counter-intuitive to tackle the problem of housing that's too expensive for young people by stimulating prices.
But that underlying problem of the housing market is still there.
But I want to be honest, given the magnitude of the housing problem out there, that there are still going to be pockets of areas where the housing values have dropped so much that it is still going to be tough for a lot of people, and we're just going to have to work our way through this as the economy improves.
Interviews and survey data from various East Asian countries show that part of the problem is extremely high housing costs roughly twice or more as a percentage of income as in the United States, according to demographer Wendell Cox and often pitiably small space.
FORBES: Decline Of The Asian Family: Drop In Marriages, Births, Threatens Economic Ascendancy
Your point on VAT anomalies is well made, but disguises a larger structural problem of private investment in council housing renewal.
The fundamental problem we're facing here is not some sort of short-term loss of confidence or short-term loss of liquidity as much as it is the fundamental problem of we need to work ourselves out of this huge housing bubble.
Evidence of continuing strength in the housing market poses a problem for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee this week.
Experts say that part of the problem is that nursing facilities are facing more competition from another type of housing for the elderly assisted living.
"It's just the type of housing that causes the problem in Hyndburn, there is not the call for "two-up, two-down" that there used to be, " she said.
BBC: New life for Accrington ghost streets of terraced homes
The chronic shortage of affordable housing exacerbates this problem.
Mr Boles says the housing problem lies at the root of many other problems because if people are unable to get houses they cannot bring their children up well or move to an area with jobs.
The problem was compounded by increasing levels of sectarianism within the housing sector, said the executive.
Housing is much more of a problem in Jena, Muenster, Hamburg and Oldenburg, where less than 2% of dwellings are empty.
The problem with the latest move from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is that the level of interest rates is not the problem in the housing market or the U.S. economy.
FORBES: America's Falling Home Sales And Why Bernanke Can't Fix Them
Kevin Roxburgh from Scottish Gas-Centrica told the committee he would like to see a biased towards helping fuel poor in rural areas where the housing stock is more of a problem.
After decades of relative economic decline and population loss, the north has a problem unimaginable in most of the south: too much old housing.
ECONOMIST: The rebuilding of England��s northern cities has stopped
All we need to do is build on another 2-3% of land and we'll have solved a housing problem.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
But we also know that we can't create as many jobs as we want, or rebuild our economy the way we hope, without addressing the problem at the heart of this economic crisis -- and that's our housing crisis.
And so, a big problem that he's presenting for me - which is a good problem - is making sure I've got affordable housing for a lot of the people that are now working downtown and I hope that he continues to do what he's doing because in the end it will definitely help our city.
He said that he plans to meet with housing officials later in the summer to discuss the problem and find ways of helping tackle the issue.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Youth mayor to help homeless
Leader of the opposition Conservative group Mike Snelling said housing was a massive and growing problem in the borough.
Although the problem of people sleeping rough on the streets may be easing, the social pathologies of big public housing estates remain entrenched.
Officials said the main problem was finding a site with comparable housing for the three key participants, Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia and Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) suggested the only way to deal with the current housing problem was to renovate empty homes.
The problem child that is the housing market continued to experience sluggish activity in most districts after the expiration of the April 30 deadline for the homebuyer tax credit.
Another problem, says Neil Dodds, who polices a housing estate in Milton Keynes, north-west of London, is that local policing can actually increase crime or the appearance of it in the short term.
And it is probably better to err on the side of overstating the problem than understating it because there is growing concern about the extent to which the housing market can recover from the subprime crisis.
He really laid out the problem quite well, at least, the problem of the last two or three years, that there was a speculative bubble in the price of housing, that the financial institutions, the banks and investment banks and all these insurance companies and pension funds and everyone else exacerbated that problem by spreading that risk all throughout the economy.
And given the size of the housing market, no federal program is going to be able to solve the housing problem.
应用推荐