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(d) Promotion of energy saving in buildings and housings

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.

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Venezuela continues to implement its housing activities within the framework of the Housing Policy Law.

The employer provides the employee with housing, food and clothing.

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.

I'm an animal without a bed and a room! I'm an animal without a room and a bed!

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

Public housing 18 per cent

Housing Unit apos s housing programme

Planned actions include the development of land and infrastructure, upgrading of settlements, support to rental housing and development of housing finance systems.

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.

Yemen depends largely on the informal sector and self help methods of building in the housing sector.

According to the charge sheet, 18 of the mobile homes were inhabited.

In addition, the promotion of cost saving and land conserving housing developments the preservation and upgrading of existing housing stocks the strengthening of the cooperative housing concept and the promotion of self help to improve housing conditions are all to be emphasized.

222. Improved housing right to adequate housing.

(a) The Housing Associations apos National Housing Fund.

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

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.

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

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

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.

107. The founding of the State Housing Board and the State Housing Agency in the mid 1950s marked the beginning of comprehensive administrative actions on housing policy.

To reduce the housing deficit to improve housing conditions

Botswana is extending the coverage of its self help housing programme which has produced more than 50 per cent of the housing stock in the urban areas and provides housing for some 63 per cent of the urban population.

Several non governmental organizations are active in the housing sector and are taking the initiative to apply the enabling strategies to improve housing in the rural areas.

At the present time, the main operational activity of the Centre in relation to the Global Shelter Strategy, is the application of the Urban and Housing Indicators.

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.

Out of the existing approximately 21.9 million private housing units, 85.3 per cent are free standing houses, 5.8 per cent are apartments and the remainder are made up of communal dwellings, roof top accommodation, premises not built to be lived in, mobile dwellings and other.

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.

(iii) Housing and Household

Home ownership is supported by mortgage interest relief, cash grants to first time purchasers of newly built dwellings, the absence of a general property tax on dwellings, sale of public housing to tenants and the shared ownership system.

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

In the rental housing programme it is proposed to increase the proportion of rental housing from 5.4 per cent to 10 per cent of housing stock.

These include the establishment of a quot housing desk quot in the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs, the formulation of new directions for the National Housing Authority and the decentralization of its operations, refocus of the activities of the National Housing and Savings Bank for the financing of shelter and infrastructure and the establishment of a home reconstruction loan scheme.

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It will also deregulate and scale down taxation in the housing sector, increase the supply of land which is available at accessible prices, promote self help construction for rural and urban housing and promote the development of technology and innovation in housing and construction.

Often their homes are their only major material possession.

362. On 25 May, a housing campaign opened on the Golan Heights, with 380 homes going on sale in 14 settlements there.

D. Links between shelter objectives and settlement management

Plan of action for 1998 1999 for the Global Strategy for Shelter to the year 2000

46. The Israeli authorities have taken various kinds of actions regarding housing.

The construction of new homes is unable to keep pace with the need for housing and there is a distinct lack of affordable housing.

The family reportedly started to rebuild their home with the help of peace activists after having camped in three tents since their house was bulldozed.