Mr. James said he wants to give the new director and staff a chance to move the housing construction along.

This has resulted in a healthy housing construction and improvement plan.

And new housing construction fell to the slowest level in four months.

Large parts of the village were built in the 1970s when much housing construction took place.

For decades after the Communists took over in 1949, there was relatively little housing construction or office building under central planning.

The solution would be to stop housing construction, all of it, everywhere in Brooklyn.

Then the land sat, awaiting a program to make new housing construction feasible or city money to create a park.

Today it remains the most rural part of the Town, although much new housing construction has taken place since 2000.

Other aspects of the group's plan would involve large-scale housing construction, he said, but probably not for several years.

North Quad is the university's first all new housing construction since 1967.