Sentence examples for housing mandate from inspiring English sources

The move is unlikely to help attract the private money needed to supply the 10% in equity underpinning bonds issued under the new plan.Opponents of Fannie and Freddie contend that the two played a key role in the crisis by encouraging the issuance of loans with tiny downpayments through a benign-sounding "affordable housing" mandate.

These advocates said the affordable housing mandate that forces towns to approve developments that include affordable housing, which can cover a vast range of rents as low as a few hundred dollars a month to more than $2,000 -- may be even more needed today than when originally established in 1989.

During the recent credit expansion, homeowners seeking mortgages to flip homes, as well as Fannie and Freddie with their affordable housing mandate and ensuing interest in securitized sub-prime mortgages, seem to have been the equivalent of the less-sophisticated, day-trading retail investor feeding the dot-com bubble.

There may, however, be a way to resolve the affordable housing mandate impasse, in a manner which offers something for both Left and Right: continue the mandates (albeit in new form, as goals for private mortgage insurance entities) but require something else that's new: a level of reporting and accountability.

Measure JJJ (L.A. City affordable housing mandate): No. Measure RRR (L.A. DWP reform): Yes.

California courts ruled in 2009 that a blanket affordable housing mandate, known as inclusionary zoning, was illegal.

But the S.E.C. complaint makes almost no mention of affordable housing mandates.

The Anti-Discrimination Center alleged that Westchester had lied when, while applying for federal housing money, it claimed to have complied with fair housing mandates.

Southold's economy has been harmed by its recent subdivision moratorium, affordable housing mandates and inclusionary zoning polices ("Southold Is Bracing for Flood of Building," Jan . 23.

Fannie and Freddie, which were required by law to meet certain "affordable housing mandates," were the primary instruments of that government policy; their need to meet those mandates, says Wallison, is what caused them to dive so heavily into those "risky" mortgages.

The restrictionist trend is hitting cities and local governments, too, hundreds of which have passed laws and ordinances touching on immigration, including requiring employers to certify workers' legal status, cracking down on rental housing, mandating English as an official language, and forbidding day laborers to seek work in public.