(c) Accessibility

Country wide Provincial housing agencies, provincial housing boards and committees

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.

Provincial housing agencies

(a) The Housing Associations apos National Housing Fund.

(e) Accessibility adequate housing is not always accessible to indigenous peoples, especially in urban areas, as a result of the discriminatory attitudes of housing providers, which create barriers in the rental housing market.

A housing policy is to be formulated which will ensure governmental incentives for rental housing and establish housing finance institutions and housing saving banks.

Table 57. Housing resources cooperative, communal and belonging to establishments

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

We have opportunities in housing and real estate.

Most of the social condition complaints were in the area of access to housing.

The potential for employment generation through shelter programmes, including programmes of housing rehabilitation, is now widely recognized.

At the federal level, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is Canada's national housing agency.

Such speculation has furthermore facilitated the development of eviction procedures which take no account of the human right to housing.

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

15. Housing

Social housing measures

The National Housing Programme gives emphasis to strengthening housing sector institutions at the national, State and local levels improving the housing finance system to include the mobilization of domestic savings, strengthening the secondary mortgage market and the incorporation of new options for housing finance.

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.

Public housing 18 per cent

Housing Unit apos s housing programme

(d) Setting up a mechanism of State assistance to the housing sector.

The State Housing Board

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.

Guarantee the equal enjoyment of the right to adequate housing for citizens and non citizens, especially by avoiding segregation in housing and ensuring that housing agencies refrain from engaging in discriminatory practices

There is an absence of financial institutions that can mobilize savings which can be channelled either directly or indirectly into housing and mortgage markets.

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).

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

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

The aim is, moreover, to increase equality in housing in such a way that financial resources are utilized to increase people apos s chances of either owning or renting a dwelling at a reasonable price.

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

The Rent Act, the Housing Regulation Act and the Housing Act could also be said to affect the realization of the right to housing.

Access to basic housing supplementary housing improvement of living conditions for vulnerable groups basic social infrastructure

This applies to rental housing, cooperative housing and single family houses.

At the same time, the Government made efforts to increase the diversity of social housing and to balance the types of home ownership.

Welfare, social security and housing

209. Speculation on housing or property, particularly when such speculation has a negative impact on the fulfilment of housing rights for all sectors of society, is not a subject of special legislation in Bulgaria at present.

To reduce the housing deficit to improve housing conditions

110. The extent of speculation on housing has meant that, for thousands of people, the right to be properly housed has been increasingly difficult to realize.

The Niger has some 50 per cent of the households in the capital living in rental housing, most of which has been built by the informal sector, as the public agencies for housing finance and housing production are unable to function adequately.

251. The 1.2 million owner occupied homes represent half of the entire Danish housing stock and provide dwellings for 61 per cent of the population.

Executing units of provincial housing agencies or ad hoc organizations

Provincial emergency coordination sections, housing agencies and municipalities

112. The purpose of Icelandic housing legislation is to direct lending towards housing and to organize housing and building activity so as to bring about security in the provision of housing for all citizens.