(a) The Housing Associations apos National Housing Fund.

Housing associations are to continue as the main providers of social housing.

Casa y Ciudad A.C. in the Mexico Housing Coalition

279. The 451,000 public residences in Denmark are owned by approximately 700 housing associations all of which are operated on a non profit basis.

International Presentation Association of the Sisters of the Presentation (2000 2003)

The proportion of local authority housing has declined to some 18 per cent of the total stock in 1995 and, by contrast, the housing association sector has grown.

Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka

A gradual increase in tenants apos participation in the operation of housing associations has contributed to increasing the quality of public housing.

About half of all tenants and a small number of members of housing associations and owners receive housing supplements.

248. The Housing Development Society is the key community level organization participating in the rural housing programme at the grass roots level.

Housing workers will now have to clear away the piles of rubbish which surround the house

Coordination of the workshop on housing projects for Latin America, Housing Promotion Foundation (FUPROVI), Costa Rica

In some countries non profit housing or building associations are playing a greater role in the production of housing, such as in Austria where non profit building associations built over 22,000 dwellings in 1995 and their activity is growing.

This agreement is negotiated between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments to deliver housing assistance.

The housing association apos s board attends to the general management of the association and its departments, including renting of vacant residences.

Commonwealth State Housing Agreement

This growth has been achieved through a combination of factors raising levels of federal funding for housing promotion, increasing efficiency of housing promotion programmes in the provinces, introducing bonds issued by banks for housing construction and strengthening the roles of building societies and non profit housing associations.

Donna McEvoy, housing manager at Cornwall Housing, said she feared it might be beyond saving.

Through the Ministry of Social Development the Federal Government coordinates the National Social Housing Fund (FONHAPO) and the National Housing Development Commission (CONAFOVI), among other programmes.

A Ministry of Housing has been created to coordinate the implementation of the housing component of the national development policy.

Everyone can be placed on a waiting list which the housing associations use when assigning tenants to flats.

Most administrative arrangements relating to social housing programs and delivery are governed by federal provincial territorial agreements on social housing.

Country wide Provincial housing agencies, provincial housing boards and committees

4.3.1. Efforts to expand and improve public housing shall be pursued with the cooperation of the State.

In Indonesia, the Real Estate Association encourages the implementation of built in cross subsidies to lower income housing.

(c) Accessibility

The housing policy is placing emphasis on housing for young families, social housing, mobilizing foreign capital, development of a capital market for housing and the development of mortgage and housing insurance institutions.

Since the public sector provides support to the sector the housing associations are subject to municipal supervision and a number of regulations have been established for how the housing associations and their departments must be governed and for the tasks which they may assume.

Leasing housing is also a part of the Icelandic social housing system.

15. Housing

Social housing measures

The African Housing Fund continues to mobilize and assist poor communities in several countries in Africa to improve shelter and services and create income generating opportunities.

The main tasks assigned to the Housing Development Society are mobilizing and strengthening community supervision of the use of loans given by the NHDA for the construction of houses, loan recoveries, etc.

Hungary has designated the responsibility for coordination of the housing policy to the Ministry of Finance and has established the National Housing Policy Council to define clearly the role of the central Government on issues of privatization and decentralization of the housing sector.

A new Ministry of Environment and Housing has been created, which brings together the portfolios of land, physical planning, shelter and environment in a coordinated relationship.

Public housing 18 per cent

Housing Unit apos s housing programme

The State Housing Board

A housing association is divided into departments which can vary in size from a small number of residences to up to a couple of thousand residences.

After they were forcibly removed from the property, shocked housing associations officers found the property in a state of disrepair.

This can be supplemented by an agreement with the housing association that a certain number of flats are rented according to special social criteria.

Provincial emergency coordination sections, housing agencies and municipalities

222. Improved housing right to adequate housing.

The Company for Habitat and Housing in Africa (Shelter Afrique) collaborated with ECA in the production of the Continental Shelter Atlas for Africa (1996).

Subsequently, in August of the same year the National Housing Council (CONAVI) was set up as a forum for consultation and advice in which the principal actors in the production and financial aspects of housing and other participants in housing construction interact with a view to ordering and optimizing the construction and financing of housing.