Evictions have risen fourfold since 1996, as owners seek to take advantage of demand to install tenants ready to pay higher rents, and the stock of cheaper housing has dwindled, with the demolition of five public housing projects in the city adding to the pressure.
PWC's Richard Parker said social housing was in a "stark position" as additional investment was necessary to maintain the quality of the housing stock and the reputation of the Housing Executive, but there was no convenient source which the Executive could use as funding.
But in recent years councils have been forced to suspend the policy, as their stock of social housing to rent has dwindled.
Because this is about .2 percent of the housing stock, this is certainly possible, which means the size of the stock is again about where it should be.
And if the productive economy of the mind flourishes, consumption of existing and future housing stock will surely take care of itself.
"The affordability and quality of housing stock definitely exists in Ridgewood and it's just a couple of extra train stops away, " said Joseph V.
Andy Lewis, the council's chief housing and public protection officer, said: "We have a housing stock of 12, 000 properties and we have to put together a business plan to improved those properties but were are not going to have the money, " he said.
"The 'housing crisis' is increasingly an issue of how our housing stock is shared between younger and older generations, " said IF co-founder Angus Hanton.
"Older generations own more than two-thirds of the nation's housing stock, " says Angus Hanton co-founder of the foundation.
In the Lords (from 11am), questions cover regulation of the civil and military use of drones, improving social housing stock and ensuring young people have a proper understanding of managing personal finances before leaving school.
Government-owned apartment buildings make up a larger part of the housing stock than in most cities.
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Among Welsh local authorities, so far only Wrexham has voted against transfer of the housing stock.
Another argument for the stock is the timing of the housing cycle.
The share of residential housing stock owned by private landlords has jumped more than 40pc since the financial crisis, and now makes up almost a fifth of the total, according to estate agent Savills.
For the time being, their rise will be most notable in "the zone of sanity, " the vast range of territory between south Texas to the Great Plains, which largely resisted the housing and stock asset bubbles of the past decade.
His current policy is to inflate another stock market bubble to cure the recession that resulted from the bursting of the housing bubble, which was itself inflated to counter the effects of the bursting tech stock bubble.
Some people were done in by the twin collapses of the housing and stock markets.
When the bottoms dropped out of the housing and stock markets, publicly traded Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE:ETH) felt the effects.
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But it will take a lot of concrete to shift prices, since, at present, new construction represents only around 1% of the total housing stock.
Foreigners are going the other way, recognizing that aging shifts the world's largest per capita stock of individually owned assets toward better housing, more consumption and greater risk-appetite for investment opportunities.
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.
RSLs currently own a third of the social housing stock and will take over more as councils such as Birmingham's, England's largest municipal landlord, prepare to transfer another 93, 000 dwellings this autumn.
While the big firms are likely lining their own pockets by doing so, Shiller says they are also doing a service by converting a chunk of the existing housing stock from (potentially underwater) owner-occupied to rental units.
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On the other hand, research by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, widely credited with predicting both the stock market crash of 2000 and the housing bust, has shown that momentum in home prices has staying power.
There are a bunch of ways for stock market investors to bet on U.S. housing, and almost all of them have been big winners in 2013.
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These positive effects are transitory, however, when local economies have insufficient permanent employment to justify a constant level of demand for new housing stock.
According to Hometrack, the property information service, privately rented property now makes up 26% of London's housing stock, compared with 15% ten years ago.
They call on the Welsh government to establish a plan for upgrading the energy efficiency ratings of the entire Welsh housing stock, prioritising the fuel poor.
"It's still open that some of the stock could transfer to existing housing associations, but essentially new housing associations are likely to be formed, " Mr Hoodless said.
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