40 Facts About Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

Social Public housing is generally rationed by a government through some form of means-testing or through administrative measures of Public housing need.

Private Public housing is a form of Public housing tenure in which the property is owned by an individual, private developer or by a non-profit organization.

The world's first large-scale Public housing project was built in London to replace one of the capital's most notorious slums – the Old Nichol.

Public housing projects were tried out in some European countries and the United States in the 1930s, but only became widespread globally after the Second World War.

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The Department of Human Settlements, which facilitates national Public housing development, has sought to transition from a Public housing-focused development model to a holistic view, including services.

In Canada, public housing is usually a block of purpose-built subsidized housing operated by a government agency, often simply referred to as community housing, with easier-to-manage townhouses.

In 2014, Vancouver, long considered one of the least affordable cities in the world, changed the definition of social Public housing to mean rental Public housing in which a minimum of 30 percent of dwelling units are occupied by households that cannot pay market rents, due to lack of income.

Unique US public housing initiative was the development of subsidized middle-class housing during the late New Deal under the auspices of the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency under the direction of Colonel Lawrence Westbrook.

Public housing was only built with the blessing of the local government, and projects were almost never built on suburban greenfields, but through regeneration of older neighborhoods.

Public-owned housing system was established when the Communist Party of China started the planned economy in the 1950s as part of its Great Leap Forward.

The occupants of the public housing were usually the employees of the enterprises and their family, who were subject to pay rent at a very low price.

Additional Public housing is built by providing free land and exemption from fees to estate developers, the resulting houses are called "Jing Ji Shi Yong Fang" .

Concept of the low-cost rental Public housing can be traced to a 1998 policy statement, but did not truly take off until 2006 due to limited funding and administrative problems.

The provision of more affordable Public housing is one of the key components of China's Twelfth Five-year Plan, which targets the construction of 36 million homes by 2015.

Many public housing estates were built as part of new town development programmes.

The proportion of the Public housing is 70 percent for low-income people and 30 percent for non-low-income people.

Day-to-day management of public housing communities has been delegated to Town Councils headed by the local members of parliament.

Public housing was an important issue right from the foundation of the Republic of German-Austria in 1918.

Social Public housing is a responsibility of the regions in Belgium.

In Denmark, public housing is called and is owned and administered by approximately 700 self-governing, democratic and non-profit organizations by and for the tenants themselves.

Danish public housing has never had any income restrictions, but in recent years new state regulations has made it mandatory for several of them to favor fully employed renters and disfavor unemployed or part-time employed people.

The privatization of public housing was initiated as part of an ideological program by the right wing governments of the early 21st century and was launched a few years after the closure of the former Ministry of Housing Affairs in 2001.

Public housing companies followed before World War I There are still different social housing movements, public, private and some cooperative.

Social Public housing is not all for disadvantaged people who are just one of the target groups.

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Gentrification and the very basis of social Public housing allocation are divisive issues as well as the extent of local control of Public housing.

The right to healthy Public housing was written into the 1919 Weimar Constitution, but few homes were built until the economy stabilised in 1925.

New German Public housing estates were low-rise, no more than five stories, and in suburban settings.

The size, shape, orientation and architectural style of Germany's public housing were informed by the recent experience of the Viennese, the Dutch, the anti-urban Garden City Movement in Britain, the new industrialized mass-production and pre-fabrication building techniques, the novel use of steel and glass, and by the progressive-liberal policies of the Social Democrats.

Large-scale social Public housing was erected in the 1930s and 1960s, with both cases following slum clearance.

Government has promoted tenant purchase on favourable terms, and many former social Public housing areas are now completely or almost completely privately owned.

Since the policy changed in 1995 the social Public housing organizations have become financially independent, focusing on their role as social entrepreneurs.

Dutch Public housing policy is based on a concept of universal access to affordable Public housing for all and the prevention of segregation.

Swedish public housing is called, and consists mostly of flats owned by the local council.

Policies carried out in the Swedish cities throughout the first decade of the 21st century have led to the tenants of public housing having bought the publicly owned buildings in which they live, which in turn has led to a significant decrease of publicly owned buildings in attractive urban areas.

Since the 1970s, non-profit Public housing associations have been operating an increasing share of social Public housing properties in the United Kingdom.

From 1996 they have been known as Registered Social Landlords, and public housing has been referred to as "social housing" to encompass both councils and RSLs.

Not all council property could be transferred, as in some local authorities, their Public housing stock was in poor condition and had a capital value less than the remaining debts from construction costs—in effect, the council stock was in negative equity.

Labour Government introduced a "third way": the Arms Length Management Organisation, where the Public housing stock stays with the Local Authority but is managed by a not-for-profit organisation at arm's length from the Local Authority.

In Melbourne, public housing stocks have been in decline for some time, sparking the recent Bendigo street housing campaign in which homeless people are being housed by the community campaign in homes left empty by the state government.