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State offers $10M for new energy-efficiency home builds
Listen to this article Developers of new homes across the state are now eligible for $10 million in energy-efficiency incentives. The money, from the Building Better Homes– Zero Emission Homes for Healthier Communities program incentivizes the design, construction and marketing of new clean and resilient single-family homes and townhomes and provides training and technical support…
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Las Vegas builders continue to focus on affordability
Affordability continues to be a buzzword in the Las Vegas housing market with the hope that continued rate cuts by the Federal Reserve during the rest of 2024 and into 2025 will make the valley’s homes more affordable. Earlier this month, the Las Vegas Realtors association reported all-time high prices for town homes and condos…
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Budget insufficient for building 3 million new homes, minister says
ublic Housing and Settlements Minister Maruarar Sirait has raised concerns over a budget shortfall that could hinder President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to build 3 million new houses each year. The newly restructured ministry is beginning its first year with a budget of only Rp 5 trillion (US$317.9 million), regardless of its task to develop of…
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AOC and progressive allies want the federal government to build over a million homes. Even YIMBYs don't think it's a good idea.
A new model of public housing is gaining steam among Democratic lawmakers across the US. AOC is behind a new bill to create a federal social housing developer. Housing experts support local experimentation, but they doubt a federal approach will work. All over the country, skyrocketing rents and home prices have made housing one of…
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State offers $10M for new energy-efficiency home builds
Listen to this article Developers of new homes across the state are now eligible for $10 million in energy-efficiency incentives. The money, from the Building Better Homes– Zero Emission Homes for Healthier Communities program incentivizes the design, construction and marketing of new clean and resilient single-family homes and townhomes and provides training and technical support…
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Budget insufficient for building 3 million new homes, minister says
ublic Housing and Settlements Minister Maruarar Sirait has raised concerns over a budget shortfall that could hinder President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to build 3 million new houses each year. The newly restructured ministry is beginning its first year with a budget of only Rp 5 trillion (US$317.9 million), regardless of its task to develop of…
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State offers $10M for new energy-efficiency home builds
Listen to this article Developers of new homes across the state are now eligible for $10 million in energy-efficiency incentives. The money, from the Building Better Homes– Zero Emission Homes for Healthier Communities program incentivizes the design, construction and marketing of new clean and resilient single-family homes and townhomes and provides training and technical support…
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Las Vegas builders continue to focus on affordability
Affordability continues to be a buzzword in the Las Vegas housing market with the hope that continued rate cuts by the Federal Reserve during the rest of 2024 and into 2025 will make the valley’s homes more affordable. Earlier this month, the Las Vegas Realtors association reported all-time high prices for town homes and condos…
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Plan for new primary schools is scrapped
The masterplan document gave only indicative locations as to where the new primary schools should be built in north west Preston – one just south of the M55 in Higher Bartle and the other off William Young Way in Cottam. Since then, one of the school plots was reserved as part of permission granted for…
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State offers $10M for new energy-efficiency home builds
Listen to this article Developers of new homes across the state are now eligible for $10 million in energy-efficiency incentives. The money, from the Building Better Homes– Zero Emission Homes for Healthier Communities program incentivizes the design, construction and marketing of new clean and resilient single-family homes and townhomes and provides training and technical support…
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