美国国家公共电台 NPR 'There Isn't A Just Housing Choice': How We've Enabled The Pains Of Gentrification

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And time now for the Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) GARCIA-NAVARRO: This week, we're talking about gentrification. Middle-class people move in. Property values and rents rise. Things change and improve but not f

Is Housing Reform Necessary?

Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary? Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reac

2017年中国新锐中产调查报告发布

A survey of China's new middle class claims that 72% suffer from sleeping problems and 31% have sex just once a month. 一份关于国内新锐中产阶层的调查称，72%的新锐中产睡眠有问题，31%的新锐中产性生活频率仅每月一次

美国国家公共电台 NPR Top 20 Percent Of Americans 'Hoard The American Dream'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with the History of Our Time. At this unsettled and unsettling moment, we're asking what big trends are driving our history. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Presidential adviser Michael Anton talked of rising nationali

英语四级作文 Housing Problem

Direction:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence of the three paragrapgs.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words,not including the words given.Remembe

美国国家公共电台 NPR For The Black Middle Class, Housing Crisis And History Collude To Dash Dreams

For The Black Middle Class, Housing Crisis And History Collude To Dash Dreams play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0008:12repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or upda

美国国家公共电台 NPR The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market

NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rural America Faces A Crisis In 'Adequate Housing'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

英语新闻视频 China pushes low-rent housing

Affordable housing is one of the main goals of the government's policy of building a housing security system. In the last five years, 270,000 low-income families have been given access to low-rent housing. It appears that low-income families just ca

China allocates 20,000 hectares for low-income housing

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec

China urges expanded financing for affordable housing

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is encouraging local governments to make full use of their financing vehicles in 2012 in an effort to boost financial support for low-income housing projects, the country's top economic planner said Monday. The cent

2.96 bln yuan misused in affordable housing

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top auditor said on Wednesday that 2.96 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) earmarked for affordable housing programs was intercepted or embezzled last year. The report was based on auditing in 66 cities and c

China to regulate housing file management

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China will next year introduce a regulation to better manage the housing files of the country in terms of resources and applicants, according to an official announcement on Tuesday. The announcement, posted on the website

英闻天下——147 A Look at Housing in Third-tier Cities

China's real estate market in major cities is warming up, with home prices rising, and more people buying new apartments. However, this is not the case across the country. In smaller cities, real estate agents are finding it increasingly difficult to

奥巴马总统每周电台演讲：重新点燃促进经济增长引擎

Hi, everybody. 嗨，大家好！ Our top priority as a nation is reigniting the true engine of our economic growtha rising, thriving middle class. 作为一个国家的我们，最高任务就是重新点燃促进经济增长的真正引擎：一个不

奥巴马每周电视讲话：为美国中产阶级争取更好的保障

For the past few weeks, 过去几个星期， I've been visiting folks across America to talk about what we need to do as a country to secure a better bargain for the middle class. 我走遍美国，与人们谈论作为一个国家为中产阶级争取

China starts construction on 5.8 mln low-income housing units

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China started building 5.8 million low-income housing units in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction on 3.6 million affordable homes has been ba

China to continue regulating land supply for housing construction

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l

Chinese banks to hold differentiated housing loans

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China's four biggest state-owned banks said Thursday they will continue implementing the differentiated housing loan policy. The four state-run lenders, dubbed the Big Four, are Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ch

英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0904 - 清华开女生安全课，男生怎么办？

Topic1 Breast Cancer Grows FastThe breast cancer rate in Beijing has increased by 90% in the past two decades, according to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Breast Center. In recent years, breast cancer has become one of the biggest health