How to Use housing stock in a Sentence
housing stock
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Most of the city’s housing stock was built before 1995, when the codes were adopted.
—Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
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Gaza has had 45% of its housing stock destroyed in one month.
—Saeed Shah, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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But to do so, the city needs to boost its housing stock as quickly as possible.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
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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
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The portion of the existing housing stock for sale is at historic lows.
—Priscilla Almodovar, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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In the meantime, the state public housing stock is suffering.
—Todd Wallack, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
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The program’s interim housing stock is just over 1,100 rooms, the report said.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Cadena put the tiny house project in the context of ongoing shortfalls in the local housing stock.
—Eric Jennings, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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About 20% of Detroit's housing stock sat vacant and abandoned, according to the report.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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But the housing stock was so limited that everything in their budget had issues.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 2 June 2024
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Today, the typical American home is over 40 years old–the oldest our housing stock has ever been.
—Jenny Schuetz, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
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Labour should therefore commit not only to building housing but also to owning the housing stock.
—Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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In the meantime, Elliott said, the state already sends counties $11 billion a year in behavioral health funds and other money that may be used to add to the affordable housing stock.
—Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
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The data suggest a loss of housing stock in every type of more sustainable, heat-resistant structure.
—The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
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Housing demand in the region remains high and housing stock, costly for first-time homebuyers.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
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Some, like Tolis, also mentioned using creative zoning and tweaking town development processes as ways to boost the housing stock.
—Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
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