Private housing

Private rental housing 19 per cent

The privatization of the housing sector will allow the production of more than 2,000 housing units per year and initiate a new private housing market.

Most of the housing is privately owned.

There has been an overall decrease in the level of housing construction, but the ratio of private sector housing construction compared to public sector has been increasing.

Information about the number of private housing was given above.

Among the issues that remain to be solved are the privatization of parts of the public rental housing stock, meeting the cost of renovation of private homes in mixed ownership buildings, the future role of private rental housing, strengthening of market type financial institutions in the housing sector and the introduction of legal and financial elements of real estate renting.

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.

Saudi Arabia has an excess in the overall housing supply with a large number of vacant dwellings in the public and private sectors but there are also many houses in need of repair.

State housing policies have been oriented towards encouraging building for private ownership and have not catered adequately to the housing needs of the poor.

Azerbaijan is continuing with the reform of the housing sector but low levels of affordability limit the participation of the needy population in the public or private sector housing programmes.

No statistics are available about the number of rented private housing.

This has had the effect of higher levels of housing production by the private sector.

247. Tenants in non profit as well as private rental housing are equally protected against eviction.

Private rental accommodation provides the largest supply of affordable housing in Canada.

In improving housing for the urban poor, Governments can assume two functions facilitating housing provision and improvement by individuals and private entrepreneurs and directly providing affordable housing to the poor.

The home and its occupants shall further be protected against any arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy or respect of the home.

The National Housing Fund, launched in 1993, is not yet operational, with private housing financial systems and firms now taking the lead in financing several housing projects.

The living space subsidized by the State is small, and the dwellings turned over to the beneficiaries are constructed by private firms.

The Government also continued the Family Housing Programme, which it started in 1996 to ease overcrowded shelters and private houses.

Efforts are made to privatize the housing sector by the transfer of responsibilities to private firms and the cooperative sector.

The Government will grant subsidies equivalent to 75 per cent of the housing cost and the rest will be funded through the housing finance system, including the Housing Bank, private banks and the Mortgage Titling Company.

There is also a special means of providing alternative accommodation for these two categories by renting them private property.

The Latvia Mortgage and Land Bank, together with private and state banks, is mobilizing finance for housing.

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.

New legislation has been introduced to facilitate better maintenance of the housing stock and to encourage the private sector in rental housing.

In the private sector there are new initiatives being taken to provide shelter for lower income groups.

A private room?

It had launched a plan for financing low income and middle income housing to encourage the construction of private housing.

The Ministry of Housing is executing various projects and is mobilizing the private sector to build housing and infrastructure through the application of flexible regulations in line with the need.

The implementation of the national housing policy encourages the full participation of all stakeholders the communities, the private sector, financial institutions, local authorities and individuals in the housing process.

Ukraine has privatized some 30 per cent of the state housing stock.

The importance of a private rented sector in the overall housing system is now already recognized and the promotion of a more diverse and well managed rented sector is one of the specific objectives of housing policy.

The instruments of privatization are the Compte des Terrains Urbains, the Direction des Ventes Immobilières, private firms and financial institutions, the National Housing Bank (BHCI) and Compte de Mobilisation pour l Habitat (CDMH), as well as special fiscal incentives to make housing produced by private firms more accessible.

The disabled persons who cannot stay in their own homes have moved from large institutions to small institutions, shared housing or private dwellings.

Financial assistance for the renovation of private housing is also to be provided, as is the diversification of housing choices to suit changing demands.

quot (vi) Creating and promoting market based incentives to encourage the private sector to meet the need for affordable rental and owner occupied housing

It was applied to both shops and private residences and amounted to 270 new shekels per square metre.

Jordan is undertaking reforms in the housing and urban sector, aiming to engage the private sector in housing provision for the low income groups, by simplifying the processes involved and empowering private sector developers to apply the same procedures and standards as are used by the main public sector agency, the Housing and Urban Development Corporation.

Housing for all

Romania is introducing further legislation to stimulate new construction by private funding and local authorities and to establish the relationships between house owners and tenants.

(iii) Joint venture housing programme, encouraging private developers to invest in house construction for the benefit of middle and upper middle income earners

Latvia has transferred about 85 per cent of the public housing stock to municipalities or the private sector.

Cape Verde has reformed the housing sector during the period 1992 1995 to give a greater role to the Institut d Appui à l Habitation (IAH) to become the main instrument for housing policies with a private orientation, to transfer responsibilities to local administrations and to redefine the role of the private sector.

Government intervention should encourage the private sector to provide low cost housing.