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

(a) The Housing Associations apos National Housing Fund.

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.

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

Social housing measures

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

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

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Welfare, social security and housing

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

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)

Secretariat for Social Development Housing Unit

Social housing now constitutes approximately 10 per cent of dwellings in Iceland.

Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka

The right to social housing is based on income and social circumstances.

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

Social housing solutions are delivered through a system of community, intermediate and funding organizations, operating within the national housing systems.

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

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

The Committee is concerned about the lack of sufficient and suitable housing in the State party as well as the acute shortage of social housing.

120. The State Housing Board grants loans to local authorities and NGOs for the building and operating of social housing.

The Committee is also concerned about the continuing increase in rents and the privatization of housing and about the scarcity of adequate social housing units for low income families while the social fund established to provide housing assistance has been reduced.

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

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 Ministry of Housing, Regional Development and Environment is giving priority to the strengthening of community organizations for their participation in social housing production.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

In addition, cooperative banks are governed by the Members Bank Act of 1995 and housing cooperatives by the Housing Cooperatives Act of 1991.

Under the socialized housing component of the Unified Home Lending Programme, housing units are priced at 150,000 pesos and below.

In the past few years the building of social housing has increased dramatically.

Under established practice the social administration of the municipalities finds dwellings for persons and households that need them.

The Palestinian Housing Council is executing projects in the Gaza Strip involving dwelling units as well as infrastructure and social facilities.

State institutions such as the Ministry of Housing, the Department of Community Development and INAFORP, were involved in this course, which was aimed at improving the housing conditions of community residents.

One that society equates living in a permanent structure, even a shack, with having value as a person.

This sector now provides up to 25 per cent of new social rental housing.

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.

Country wide Provincial housing agencies, provincial housing boards and committees