In New Jersey, for example, federal aid programs granted to FEMA include rental payments for temporary housing for those whose homes are unlivable.
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In New Jersey, impacted individuals can request rental payments for temporary housing for those whose homes are unlivable.
Undaunted, they formed what is now Boston Capital and got into rural rental housing--for the tax angle.
However, opponents say selling properties will reduce the rental housing stock available for those on low incomes.
That's one explanation for why the rental-housing market is very strong right now.
The debate in Galveston reflects a dilemma poor citizens elsewhere face: As the need for low-income rental housing rises, exacerbated by the economic downturn and the foreclosure crisis, the supply of subsidized housing has shrunk.
Because the asset price method can lead to inappropriate results for goods that are purchased largely for investment reasons, the CPI implemented the rental equivalence approach to measuring price change for owner-occupied housing.
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It includes Section 8 rental assistance for nearly another 4 million private housing units.
It also made it easier to exclude capital gains from rental property, further pushing up the demand for housing.
But over the past decade many cities have gone for broke with dense condo and rental housing and have produced far more product, often at very high cost, than the market can reasonably bear.
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.
The net yield on rental housing is less than this as the landlord must pay for insurance, taxes, repairs and vacancy time.
Subsidized by HUD and other sources, programs such as the Generations Project in Hartford have made available to grandfamilies 24 rental units of affordable housing, said Jason Natelle, communications specialist for Community Renewal Team Inc.
With those challenging statistics in mind, in some cities it easier for new college grads to find both a job and affordable rental housing.
Houses were not ideal rental candidates because there was no shortage of apartment units and other for-rent housing options.
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According to the Center for Housing Policy, nearly 20 percent of all foreclosures are on rental properties, and tenants' rights in such situations are minimal.
But for investors who want to take a stance on the housing and rental markets now, Slatin recommends Mid-America Apartments because the REIT has been hit hard and hasn't fully recovered.
Sir Adrian was asked for ways to tackle the UK's housing shortage, especially in the private rental sector.
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He worries that fracking could deplete local water supplies, that there already is a shortage of rental housing and that a large stream of strangers might be more than some locals bargained for.
The housing stock is not prepared for this flow of renters, suggesting potent ally severe rental shortage.
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