40 Facts About Social housing

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

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

Private Social housing is a form of Social 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 Social housing project was built in London to replace one of the capital's most notorious slums – the Old Nichol.

Public Social 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 Social housing development, has sought to transition from a Social housing-focused development model to a holistic view, including services.

In 2014, Vancouver, long considered one of the least affordable cities in the world, changed the definition of social housing to mean rental 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 Social housing initiative was the development of subsidized middle-class Social 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 Social 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 Social 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 Social housing were usually the employees of the enterprises and their family, who were subject to pay rent at a very low price.

Additional Social 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 Social 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 Social 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 Social housing estates were built as part of new town development programmes.

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

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

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

Social housing is a responsibility of the regions in Belgium.

In Denmark, public Social 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 Social 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 Social 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.

Social housing landlords were a major source of expertise as well as construction actors with links to national and local bodies.

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

Social 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 housing allocation are divisive issues as well as the extent of local control of housing.

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

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

Large-scale social 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 housing areas are now completely or almost completely privately owned.

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

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

New plan was put forward by the government, aiming to make near a million homes available for public Social housing, relying both on new construction and refurbishment of unused houses.

Swedish public Social 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 Social 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 housing associations have been operating an increasing share of social housing properties in the United Kingdom.

Not all council property could be transferred, as in some local authorities, their Social 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 Social 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 Social housing stocks have been in decline for some time, sparking the recent Bendigo street Social housing campaign in which homeless people are being housed by the community campaign in homes left empty by the state government.

In 1937 the First Labour Government launched a major public-Social housing system—it became known as "state Social housing"—for citizens unable to afford private rents.