How to Use housing stock in a Sentence
housing stock
noun-
Most of the city’s housing stock was built before 1995, when the codes were adopted.
— Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024 -
Gaza has had 45% of its housing stock destroyed in one month.
— Saeed Shah, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023 -
But to do so, the city needs to boost its housing stock as quickly as possible.
— Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024 -
The fall in rental prices may also be a result of fresh housing stock hitting the market this year.
— Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023 -
The portion of the existing housing stock for sale is at historic lows.
— Priscilla Almodovar, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Last year, the Yucca Valley Town Council capped short-term rentals at 10% of its housing stock.
— Angella D’avignon, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024 -
Our housing stock is old—nearly half of all units in Michigan were built before 1970.
— Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024 -
Steven, in a city like Baltimore, most of the housing stock are these row houses, many of which were built like one hundred years ago.
— IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2021 -
In the meantime, the state public housing stock is suffering.
— Todd Wallack, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023 -
The program’s interim housing stock is just over 1,100 rooms, the report said.
— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023 -
To boost housing stock, the city needs to start permitting more housing overall.
— The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 31 July 2024 -
The housing stock is aging and requires reinvestment (the typical home in the U.S. is near 40 years old).
— USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024 -
More than two-thirds of the state’s housing stock was built before 1980, according to the Ohio Department of Public Health.
— Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023 -
These small units make up one of the most significant recent additions to the state’s housing stock.
— Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024 -
Cadena put the tiny house project in the context of ongoing shortfalls in the local housing stock.
— Eric Jennings, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024 -
And that doesn't begin to address the issue of what kind of neighborhood, and housing stock, a family might want.
— Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023 -
When all buildings are finally open, the projects will have added more than 350 low-income apartment units to the city’s housing stock in a little more than a year.
— Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023 -
The study examined how fast the housing stock grew between the first two decades of the 2000s and compared it with the number of new households formed during that time period.
— Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 26 June 2024 -
Hochul’s office hasn’t explicitly said that the mandates won’t be a part of the final deal, but things seemed to be crumbling around her plan to increase housing stock across the state.
— The Suburbs Apr. 19, Curbed, 19 Apr. 2023 -
The number of units controlled by Carlyle and other firms remains a minuscule slice of the overall housing stock.
— Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023 -
About 20% of Detroit's housing stock sat vacant and abandoned, according to the report.
— Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Lead poisoning is a big concern in Detroit because much of the housing stock predates the 1978 federal ban on lead paint.
— Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2022 -
The task force found that pricey single-family homes with at least four bedrooms dominate Carmel's housing stock.
— Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2024 -
The glut of offices has been an opportunity for some developers to add to the US housing stock, which faces a long-term shortage.
— John Gittelsohn, Fortune, 27 July 2023 -
But the housing stock was so limited that everything in their budget had issues.
— Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 2 June 2024 -
Today, the typical American home is over 40 years old–the oldest our housing stock has ever been.
— Jenny Schuetz, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Labour should therefore commit not only to building housing but also to owning the housing stock.
— Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024 -
Whole-home rentals—the sort of bland and luxury stays that have become popular for travelers— are the ones perceived to eat away at housing stock, and can be owned by big-time landlords.
— Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023 -
The five parks in the city comprise about 3% of Boulder’s housing stock, said Crystal Launder, a senior project manager for housing policy with the city.
— Carey L. Biron, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Not surprisingly, these trends hold true across both condos and co-ops, which make up the majority of Manhattan’s housing stock.
— John Walkup, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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