The Sudan has both quantitative and qualitative problems in housing.

Social housing measures

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

For those whose needs cannot be met in the marketplace, CMHC provides housing subsidies to support Canada's social housing stock for low income Canadians as well as to provide housing assistance for those with special distinct needs under targeted initiatives.

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

Welfare, social security and housing

According to the 2001 Census, Canada's total housing stock comprised 12.5 million dwelling units, of which just under 11.6 million were occupied as a primary residence.

Secretariat for Social Development Housing Unit

Measuring housing needs

Table 15. Housing stock by type, 1981

(a) Housing supply, level of rents and housing stock (paras. 2.4.1 and 2.4.2)

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

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

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Housing cooperatives

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.

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

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

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

Total housing, including turnover (number of dwellings)

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

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

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

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.

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.

No. of occupied housing units

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.

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

The international community provided huge assistance in the area of housing, but seldom were the funds redirected to different purposes.

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

To prevent further homelessness, it is critical that States meet their obligation of non retrogression and refrain from reducing public housing stocks, reducing access to housing subsidies, and reducing access to redress for housing violations, in the face of continuing housing violations.

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

No. of occupied housing units ( apos 000)

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

The housing supply meets only 10 per cent of the needs and the deficit has been widening.

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

(a) The Housing Associations apos National Housing Fund.

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.

Home ownership has been gradually increasing and now stands at over 80 per cent and, in recent years, considerable improvements have been made to the social housing systems.

This is due especially to the fact that the demand for rental dwellings has been greater than the demand for owner occupied dwellings.