Sentence examples for occupancies- from inspiring English sources

Less-affluent potential home buyers were eager to escape the stigma that had been attached to such serviceable housing options as trailers, studios, and single-room occupancies (SROs).

John Fruin, a retired research engineer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is one of the founders of crowd studies in the U.S. In a 1993 paper, "The Causes and Prevention of Crowd Disasters," he wrote, "At occupancies of about 7 persons per square meter the crowd becomes almost a fluid mass.

Rental rates and occupancies had improved enough by the second quarter that many real estate investment trusts were able to raise enough money to return to the market.

After weathering the worst of the economic downturn that sent their occupancies and room rates plummeting, hotels are starting to see more demand as business travel and, to a lesser extent, leisure travel, pick up.

But in the depths of the recession, hotel owners faced record low occupancies that reduced their income just as credit became almost impossible to get.

He said he expected occupancies to "slightly improve nationally by midyear, and the decline in rates should stop no later than the end of the year".

The last census, in 2011, recorded 1.85 million houses as non-family, multi-occupancies.

It will have control over a number of benefits including disability living allowance, the personal independence payment, winter fuel payments and the housing elements of universal credit, including the under-occupancy charge (bedroom tax).

When extensive repair work began on the main access road into the Black Isle, Marion spotted an opportunity, realising that with an average occupancy rate of just 1.2 people per vehicle on the road, the project only needed to increase this figure to 1.5 to keep traffic flowing during the roadworks.

In the long run, if the government encourages official financial support for home and infrastructure improvement in homegrown settlements, along with a clear recognition of occupancy rights and the development of co-operative housing societies, we will have a robust system in place.

"We take on the risk of occupancy for our partners – which means if they don't get lived in, we don't get paid," he says.