As part of the attempt to provide access to suitable dwellings for groups with specially limited ability to pay rent, housing subsidies have been paid since 1967 as individual assistance with payment of housing expenses.

A network of financial institutions mobilize savings and, in order to make housing loans more affordable, the National Housing Trust operates a graduated payment mortgage scheme.

244. Housing indicators.

For example, court ordered restitution to pay for alternative housing may not be an option if basic housing itself is not available.

(4) expenses on purchasing residential house or paying realty management fees and so on and

New policy initiatives introduced in 1996, include new State guarantees for housing loans for owner occupation, new interest subsidy for housing companies (condominiums) and a lower down payment in the home savings system for first time buyers.

Other indicators relating to the production and affordability of housing are largely independent of the level of development.

(g) quot Disbursement quot shall mean the actual amount paid

Individuals and families who are paying housing loans or rent are entitled to a monthly social benefit if the income of the individual or of the family goes below the State set minimum after paying the housing loan instalment.

Most victims of domestic violence do not have alternative accommodation, an independent means of livelihood or the means to meet the expenses of legal proceedings.

B. Capacity to pay . 25 27 18

B. Capacity to pay

(c) Experimenting with a system of paying housing allowances to low income families to help them pay their rents

Many women with disabilities are unable to access high paying employment, so the high costs of housing and health services they have to meet often make adequate housing unaffordable.

You can live in the big house with Ma. We'll pay all the bills.

The following figures were given as the Danish response concerning housing to the 10 key indicators presented in a worksheet for the Housing Indicator Programme in February 1995 (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements World Bank)

The amount allocated has been fully obligated to cover potential claims.

Patrimony development threshold households with a per capita income less than the amount needed to meet nutritional requirements plus basic expenditure on health, education, clothing, footwear, housing and public transport.

Accommodation support

The grant can be used to pay 75 per cent of the cost of hiring additional officers for a three year period.

The current trend is towards an increase in the size of housing units, as measured in terms of the number of rooms built, not including kitchens.

Assessment rates should be fixed according to Member States' capacity to pay, which should be determined on the basis of economic data that best reflected the performance of national economies.

Total housing, including turnover (number of dwellings)

(h) Interest benefits (because of payments of interests in the housing credit system).

It has also supported the efforts of several Governments in the application of the urban and housing indicators.

The Committee's deliberations on the matter should be guided by the principle of capacity to pay.

258. The Act on Individual Housing Subsidies ensures that the entitled households, especially those with children or senior citizens, receive aid for payment of their share of housing expenses.

The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Government of France provided support to UNCHS (Habitat) for the application of indicators.

Table 15. Housing stock by type, 1981

The annual housing subsidy for single households normally cannot exceed DKr 26,496 (1995 index).

In accordance with the principle of capacity to pay, those countries that were able to pay their contributions as assessed must do so in full, on time and without conditions.

So, if the deficit being measured is one of houses rather than one of habitats, the solutions often do not solve the real problem. A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an equivalent number of well connected habitat nodes.

As partners, each state or territory is responsible for the delivery of public housing, but waiting lists for housing can be as long as several years.

Despite the efforts made, housing supply falls far short of demand.

Recently, there are indicators pointing to a slight drop in the home ownership rate, probably best perceptible in the younger age groups.

Urban and Housing Indicators

Major reforms to reactivate mobility in the housing market are also being introduced and can thus encourage willing and able occupiers of public housing to move to private sector housing.

of total occupied houses

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

There will be upgrading of rural housing and the construction quality of both urban and rural housing and their capacity to resist natural disasters will register new improvements.

In his view, that could result in duplication and an overestimate of the amounts required to pay for the premises he requested clarification from the Secretariat.

The application of the urban and housing indicators has identified the need for human resource development in several areas in the urban and shelter sectors.

In situations where indigenous people live in public housing, these units often cannot accommodate their kinship ties, and most indigenous people have to give up traditional and culturally specific housing when they migrate to cities.

The strategy will also make adjustments to the current legislation, to allow the involvement of the private sector in housing development and also to adjust municipal budgets, in order to cover public expenditure on housing and land.

Total No. of units Persons apos 000