Because the difficulty of finding housing is a constant lament, many school officials are trying to find ways to help.
He also described the difficulty of city housing and the need for holistic policies to address large-scale urban development.
The road that links them, also called N.C. 12, offers an extreme example of the difficulty of maintaining houses, condos, roads and other infrastructure in the face of a climate-driven rise in sea level.
Indeed, the difficulties of the housing market over recent months should come as no surprise given recent tax changes that have hit homebuyers.
The white natives, who blame everything from stabbings to the difficulty of obtaining public housing on immigrants, are not pleased.
Another asked what Mr. Obama would do differently, prompting an answer from the president about the difficulty of resolving the housing crisis.
At the meeting, residents described frustrations that ranged from the difficulty of finding affordable housing to humiliating police practices like strip- and cavity-searching men in full view of bystanders.
But quite apart from the difficulty of playing the housing market if you are not an oligarch, what does it say about our society when we can, in theory at least, make more money doing nothing than we can by the sweat of our brow?
Were that not bad enough, Mr. Spano said, the difficulty of finding affordable housing in all but a few communities, like Yonkers and New Rochelle, is contributing to choking traffic on arteries like the Tappan Zee Bridge, a conduit for those who work here but must live where it is less expensive, say in Rockland or Orange Counties.
