The government also reversed its earlier policy and started building flats in Canberra.

Building flats seemed inevitable it these higher densities were to be achieved.

Well, they just keep building flats don't they?

However, as Birmingham's population expanded and the demand for housing increased, the idea of building flats and maisonettes across the city became more popular.

He continued as a property developer, building flats in Portugal, the Canary Islands, and elsewhere.

David Scro, whose late father, Frank, began building flats in Wantagh in the early 1980's, is carrying on the family tradition.

While the amount of prefabricated building flats had rose in Leinefelde, the balance of carefully planned live/work was suddenly destroyed in 1989.

As a consequence London County Council opened the Boundary Estate in 1900, and many local councils began building flats and houses in the early twentieth century.

Greenwood's Act finally coerced a number of local authorities into building flats; in the 1920s the majority of English cities had not undertaken high-density redevelopment, confining their use of housing subsidies to suburban estates.

What is new among many of today's developers is the complete break with earlier phases - building flats instead of duplexes, as Mr. Collins did, or shifting from town houses to detached housing in an effort to jump-start sales in a stagnant housing market.

If so, what is the point of building apartments people can't afford?

These plans include taking down sections of the outside walls and building apartments between the historic prison buildings.

The population isn't growing as fast as we're building apartments."

They said they were building apartments, but now there's nothing."

Developers are building apartments in downtown areas that once went dark when offices and stores closed for the day.

From 1911, the municipality took responsibility of building apartments, and up to right after 1930, new apartment areas for the worker class were built.

It helps finance venture capitalists in the city and is building apartments downtown.

"We've stopped building apartments for so long now, rental rates will pick up, fueling some inflation," he said.

In addition to building apartments, Bay is an active buyer of older properties that it renovates.

By 1993, the insurance company had poured $317 million into building apartments, a health spa, tennis courts, restaurants and a new golf course.

Developers have reacted by building apartments with communal gardens and rooms big enough to take large pieces of furniture from the family home.

"But that's where the land is, and that's where they're building apartments."

Bur Dubai is a popular living area consisting of a lot of building apartments.

The Fibag was not contracted for building apartments for the American military.

And from the developers' point of view, it's much more cost-effective than building apartments in one place and a care home 10 miles down the road.

Large national developers have either stopped building apartments or have shifted from overbuilt cities to those where demand is still strong.

In New York, hospitals have been buying or building apartments to house nurses, technicians, medical residents and interns.

Mr. London would offer housing vouchers to poor people and would reduce land costs by building apartments over existing government buildings, like schools.

"I've never seen anything like what's going on now," said Jeff Lee, who has been building apartments, houses and lofts in the city for 18 years.

Under Mr. Kalikow's leadership it began building apartments and some offices in Manhattan.

"Central and northern New Jersey, where there are wall-to-wall people building apartments, are as safe bets as you can get."

If the office market remains soft, he said, he has the option of building apartments instead of a large block of office space.

The Fifth Avenue Committee initially proposed building apartments as well as a charter school on top of a new library.

I sold actors' homes in California for a while, and then I put a company together and started building apartments and shopping centers.

In Tuckahoe, for example, a plan to revitalize the downtown and replenish the tax rolls by building apartments in a former commercial building has become increasingly controversial.

The rest of the population growth will be done by building housing units in the open spaces between existing neighbourhoods, and by eventually replacing single-family homes on some busier streets with apartments and condos.

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