While the economic problem is housing prices, the financial problem is much bigger.
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.
Housing where Gordon has accepted there's a real problem about affordable housing and we're now striking out on that.
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.
She is blamed for another current problem - the housing crisis - by Owen Jones in the Independent.
All we need to do is build on another 2-3% of land and we'll have solved a housing problem.
And given the size of the housing market, no federal program is going to be able to solve the housing problem.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) suggested the only way to deal with the current housing problem was to renovate empty homes.
Romney is unusual in having diagnosed the affordable housing problem correctly.
But that underlying problem of the housing market is still there.
Michael Stein, owner and managing director of Jersey architect MS Planning, said he did not think this was the right approach to solve the social housing problem.
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However, the government also has another way to help deal with the housing problem - changes in the planning system to make it easier to build new houses.
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.
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To deal with the pressing housing problem, the government has shifted its emphasis from building new brick and mortar houses toward in-situ upgrading of existing informal settlements and providing access to services.
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.
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.
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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.
The chronic shortage of affordable housing exacerbates this problem.
Supporters said the road network was "near breaking point" and new housing would make the problem worse.
And, now, the problem is there isn't housing, period, and tearing down these blocks will only make the situation worse.
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Your point on VAT anomalies is well made, but disguises a larger structural problem of private investment in council housing renewal.
Evidence of continuing strength in the housing market poses a problem for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee this week.
"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.
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The core problem is that Britain's housing estates are more and more a place apart for the old, the young, the fatherless, the unemployed, the disabled, the idle and the dependent.
President Bush exacerbated the problem, further pumping up the housing bubble with his cheap dollar monetary policy, under the illogical, outdated, Keynesian thinking that a cheap dollar expands the economy by promoting exports.
And the problem is that that private recession in housing is now spilling over into the broad economy.
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