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  • Cheaper rents on offer
    Gympie Times
    He said HHC, which has more than 800 "affordable" homes throughout the state, will release the Gympie properties under the National Rental Affordability Scheme, giving tenants a 20% reduction on market rental rates. The homes are on Gympie's southside, ...


  • CSUs Offering Low-Cost Digital Textbook Rentals
    SCVNEWS.com
    The CSU's digital rental program is just one facet of the system's Affordable Learning Solutions initiative. Launched in 2010, Affordable Learning Solutions is guided by the three key principles of choice, affordability and accessibility to provide ...

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  • Supply of Affordable Housing Shrinks
    Apartment Finance Today
    By Donna Kimura In 2010, there were 9.8 million extremely low-income renter households but only 3 million rental homes that were affordable and available to them, according to a new analysis by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).


  • Rental doors shut, forcing poor to look elsewhere
    Maribyrnong Weekly
    BY GRANT REYNOLDS LOW-income households in the west are being priced out of the rental market in Maribyrnong, despite a higher vacancy rate and lower rents than other parts of Melbourne. The latest rental affordability data compiled by the Tenants ...


  • Beach to allow basement apartments
    The Barrie Advance
    Historically, the municipality has not allowed rental apartments in houses but town staff has until the end of the year to make provisions for them. Apartments will be required under Bill 140, the Strong Communities through Affordable Housing Act, ...


  • Sydney Morning Herald

  • Push to raise subsidies for students in rent crisis
    Sydney Morning Herald
    For unemployed people receiving the Newstart allowance and rent assistance, the figure is two in three, according to an analysis of government figures by the community sector group Australians for Affordable Housing in its pre-budget submission to be ...

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  • Renters Face Severe Affordability Shortage
    Housing Predictor
    By Mike Colpitts Homeowners forced to rent homes and apartments as a result of foreclosures are finding the lowest affordability of rental housing in decades as rental rates in the majority of US cities climb, according to a national housing advocacy ...

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  • St Florence affordable homes approved despite viability concerns
    Western Telegraph
    The application, referring to an exception site on land off Longstone, said the homes were all intended to contain three bedrooms and all for social rental by a housing association. A previous application for ten affordable homes, with six for rental ...

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  • TEXT-S&P may raise RSC Rental rating
    Reuters
    Feb 22 - Overview -- As part of its acquisition of RSC Equipment Rental Inc. (RSC), United Rentals Inc. (URI) will assume RSC's outstanding senior unsecured debt. -- We are placing our 'B-' issue rating on RSC's senior unsecured notes on CreditWatch ...

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  • Rent or buy? Calculating buyers find answer online
    Irish Times
    EVER get frustrated with the limitations of the average rent or buy online calculator which can't take into account your skills as an armchair economist ? Well MyHome.iehas a new Rent or Buy calculator that allows you to either do the most basic ...


  • Realtors Slam Obama Foreclosure-Rental Plan
    Wall Street Journal (blog)
    By Alan Zibel The National Association of Realtors took a public shot at the Obama administration on Wednesday, criticizing an effort to alleviate some the housing market's woes by renting out foreclosed properties. For several months, Obama officials ...

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  • Relax FSI norm for rental housing: MMRDA chief
    Times of India
    MUMBAI: The MMRDA chief wants the floor space index (FSI) granted to developers to be flexible in order to enable them to build effective rental housing schemes. FSI defines the permissible built-up area on a plot. MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana said ...

  • United Rentals Introduces Online Trench Safety Training for Customers
    MarketWatch (press release)
    GREENWICH, Conn., Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI) , a North American leader in trench safety solutions, today announced that its excavation safety training courses are available over the Internet for contractors to ...

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  • Rental squeeze leaves tenants desperate
    ABC Online
    Canberra's rental market is notoriously tight, with demand spiking at the beginning of each year as thousands of students and workers flock to the capital. Rent prices in the Territory have risen 4 per cent this year, pushing the median weekly price to ...

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