We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.
We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.
Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.