The Russian advance has gone slowly as the troops have been engaged in costly house-to-house fighting.
There were many, with many grumbles, including about the National Health Service, benefit cuts and costly housing.
Pulling a little paint off the wall with tape could result in a costly housing violation.
Reform of the complex and costly housing benefit system has also proved to be too tough a nut to crack.
I used to think it was the costly housing, endless crowds and sweltering summer heat that were holding me back.
It bears mentioning that in places like Honolulu, Boston and Washington, DC, where the homeless numbers are particularly high, costly housing ensures that even employed people are left on the streets.
Hull City council's partnerships and development manager, Mark Hill, explains that sites such as Wawne View help to leverage Hull's more costly housing renewal schemes elsewhere.
The announcement came after The Bay Citizen disclosed the costly housing ordeal last week, provoking criticism at a time when the 10-campus U.C. system is facing one of the worst financial crises in its history.
Here, the meetings are packed, with hundreds of parents brainstorming in small groups on matters like training teachers in cultural awareness and creating less costly housing in a city where real estate is notoriously expensive.
The critic Richard Grant White, the father of Stanford White, recalled in The Century Magazine in 1883 that Bleecker had been the most exclusive address in New York, "filled with costly houses".
