Sentence examples for battered housing from inspiring English sources
Once the US's fourth largest city and now its 18th, Detroit's woes escalated during the recession as its already battered housing market collapsed and unemployment soared.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Groundbreaking on new homes fell more than expected in December to its lowest in over a year, suggesting the battered housing sector remained a roadblock to a recovery.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Claims for jobless aid rose last week, the government reported on Thursday, but a gauge of future home sales rose in a hopeful sign for the battered housing sector.
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission on Monday lowered its forecast for growth in the European Union this year as world trade decreases and consumers pull back in the face of weakening employment and battered housing markets.
The failure of any of the usual fiscal and monetary policy tools so far raises questions about what the Federal Reserve and federal government can do in the near term to counter the forces that have battered housing prices and pushed down the stock market and are now causing a hiring slowdown.
Some possible relief lies ahead for the battered housing sector.
The program helps with everything from emergency housing to mental health services, from getting a MetroCard to rebuilding battered family relationships and rewiring criminal thinking.
Then again, the old landline-based one would, too, if a burglar thought to cut the phone line or winds or ice battered the house.
The floods rose to at least 18 feet above normal tide, inundating the peninsula, while 100-mile-per-hour winds battered the houses.
Perhaps most important, despite the government support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, any stabilization in home prices is still a way off, and the waves of foreclosures battering the housing market are not likely to reverse right away.
Nearby houses were pulled down to improve defences, and the siege gun Mons Meg was employed to batter houses outside the wall which were being used by snipers.
