Number of units occupied

(d) Settlement expansion (the addition of new housing units) in the West Bank

(i) Maaleh Adumim (the building of the 6,500 units listed below will bring the total number of units at Maaleh Adumim to 11,000) 15

Those citizens who do not own housing units live in rented ones, with relatives or in nursing homes for the elderly, etc.

On Hill B, 5,000 additional housing units will be built, which will eventually bring the total number of housing units in the settlement to 8,300.

People who have lost tenancy rights to apartments will have even more difficulty in obtaining restitution.

No. of shanty units

Table 17. Housing units and living quarters other than housing units, 1981

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Potential homelessness may be interpreted to mean individuals living in overcrowded conditions (three or more persons in a room), in primitive housing units or in condemned buildings.

(iii) In the new quarter of Ramat Shlomo in the Reches Shu apos fat settlement, 2,165 housing units were built on an area of 1,198 dunums 1,680 of the units are at present inhabited 13

That new settlement is planned to accommodate 55,000 settlers in 13,500 housing units.25 The World Zionist Organization is also supporting new settlement construction in the Jordan Valley.26

The Ministry of Defence approved the plan for the construction of 1,550 housing units in the settlement of Givat Zeev, north of Jerusalem.

241. Table 17 reflects the number of families living in occupied housing units.

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.

In the spring of 2005, Israel announced plans to construct 3,500 new housing units in Ma'ale Adumim and two other settlement blocs in the West Bank, and in early June it publicized tenders for the construction of 22 housing units in Ma'ale Adumim.

No. of households in occupied units No. of units

In more than one case the State has had to demolish social housing units because they were sub standard and, above all, because they did not make for a sociable living environment.

The average number of inhabitants per dwelling has fallen from about 5.3 in 1940 to about 2.7 in 1995.

In June 1998, an extremist settler group took over 4 housing units and a plot of land in the Silwan neighbourhood.

There are 1,150 housing units in the Efrat settlement.

(i) A plan was announced to expand the Givat Zeev settlement through the building of 800 new housing units, bringing the total number of housing units in the settlement to 4,600, which will allow it to absorb 20,000 settlers 10

The Tzufim settlement would receive another 1,500 housing units.

There are currently some 400 housing units in the Maaleh Efraim settlement.

In the first stage, this settlement is expected to accommodate 4,000 settlers in 1,000 housing units, gradually increasing to 30,000 settlers occupying some 6,500 units in the final stage.4

The following table shows the number of new housing units built by the State

These units will accommodate some 20,000 settlers.

303. On 9 January, it was reported that according to a document obtained by Ha aretz, the Housing Ministry had plans for the construction of 30,000 housing units in settlements.

China The Government of China invests 100 billion annually that translates into 10 million housing units.

Since 1967, 10,492 housing units have been built for Palestinians, while 44,481 or approximately four times more have been built for Jews.

Despite the construction of many housing units, the Committee is concerned at the large number of people living in illegal settlements in the State party who are, consequently, liable to forced evictions.

The Ari'el settlement already has expanded westward with 2,000 new housing units.

352. On 31 December, hundreds of persons attended a ceremony in the Beit El settlement to lay the cornerstone for a new neighbourhood of 200 housing units.

In the Ariel settlement, 3,690 new housing units were slated for construction which currently has 3,300 housing units. (Ha aretz, 9 January)

In 2004, Israel established two new settlements in the occupied East Jerusalem area Kidmat Zion (400 units) and Nof Zahav (550 units).

The Housing Ministry also planned to sell land in the Givat Zeev settlement to allow for the construction of 1,320 housing units there.

Austria has recorded a steady growth in the number of completed dwellings from 4.7 units per 1,000 inhabitants in 1990 and 5.4 in 1993, to 6.3 in 1995.

The annulment of the laws was only the first step towards resolving the problems they had created alternative accommodation still has to be provided for refugees and displaced persons living in houses and apartments belonging to people who have returned and wish to claim back their property.

299. On 7 January, the Government approved the construction of 575 housing units in the Efrat settlement.

According to the Ministry s 1998 1999 plan, land for the construction of 1,000 housing units in the settlement would be sold in 1998 300 additional housing units were scheduled to be placed on the market in 1999.

Metropolitan Lima offers advantages over the rest of the country, and urban settlements are preferable to rural ones.

The objective in relation to housing in Greenland is that there should be a dwelling for each co habitant couple, as well as a dwelling for all single people above the age of 20.

In addition, the Housing Ministry published a tender for the construction of an additional 72 government funded housing units in the settlement.

Provision is made for freight costs based on the rate of 25 per cent for the transfer of 10 accommodation units to provide office space for additional staff and equipment to support the mission at a cost of 6,500 per unit ( 16,300) and for two Rubb Hall accommodations to be used as a storage area for general stores and as a mobile workshop at a cost of 6,000 per unit ( 3,000).

The construction of 1,330 housing units is said to have been approved in the orthodox settlement of Beitar Elit.