house-building

On top of this, house-building activity is likely to be limited by persistently weak housing market activity, soft prices and a worrisome outlook, he said in a note.

U.K. Construction Slows Nicholas Winning 2011

She cites a house-building project whose $150 million left 20% with the originating aid agency, a further 20% at a Washington-based contractor, and an additional 20% with a third organization, which then hired a subcontractor.

Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell? Peter Christian Hall 2010

By a happy coincidence, house-building is one of the best stimulators of the economy: It employs a lot of people on average wages, who then spend their money quickly in a "multiplier effect."

Johann Hari: The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster Johann Hari 2010

That first phase? of calibrated confrontation with Israel? reached a climax in March, when Vice-President Joe Biden visited the country only to be greeted by the announcement of more house-building in east Jerusalem.

Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. But it's gone very wrong Jonathan Freedland in Washington 2010

By a happy coincidence, house-building is one of the best stimulators of the economy: It employs a lot of people on average wages, who then spend their money quickly in a "multiplier effect."

Johann Hari: The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster Johann Hari 2010

By a happy coincidence, house-building is one of the best stimulators of the economy: It employs a lot of people on average wages, who then spend their money quickly in a "multiplier effect."

Johann Hari: The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster Johann Hari 2010

The Vanderbilts astonished everyone by their rapid house-building, by the opulent European architectural styles and treasures imported to America, and particularly their boldness in building quite far up Fifth Avenue.

The Four Hundred | Edwardian Promenade 2009

With the government poised to announce measures in the budget this week to kick-start house-building by liberalising planning laws, East Coker's dilemma could be the first of many similar disputes, albeit without the literary edge.

East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion 2011

By a happy coincidence, house-building is one of the best stimulators of the economy: It employs a lot of people on average wages, who then spend their money quickly in a "multiplier effect."

Johann Hari: The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster Johann Hari 2010

To mention only a handful of the scores of casualties seems a nonsense, but still: benefits, as we know, are in line for swingeing reductions; there are serious fears that tens of thousands of police officers will go; train fares will rise; house-building will shrink; libraries will close; care for disabled people will suffer; help for the arts will drop.

Spending review 2010: living with the cuts John Harris 2010