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Public housing policies in Canada includes rent controls, as well as subsidized interest rates and grants. Early public housing policy in Canada consisted of public-private lending schemes which focused on expanding home ownership among the middle class. [1] The first major housing initiative in Canada was the Dominion Housing Act of 1935 ...
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011, when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing. Dwellings built for public or social housing use are built by or for local authorities and known as ...
The Scottish Special Housing Association was established in 1937 to provide good-quality social housing. It had headquarters in Edinburgh's West End, Palmerston Place and Manor Place, Edinburgh, where it employed a large team of architects, engineers and quantity surveyors. [1] It was responsible for the construction of many social housing ...
In 1999, the National Housing Act and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act were modified, allowing for the introduction of a 5% down payment—a change launched as a pilot in 1992, extended and finalized in 1999—removing a significant barrier for first-time home buyers. CMHC also expanded its activities internationally and launched ...
Most UK social housing tenants have the right to swap homes with another tenant even if their landlords are different. This is called a "mutual exchange". [127] As of 2017, in England, local authorities can destinate homeless households in local tenancies, whereas in Scotland social housing remained the first chosen policy. [128]
The Social Housing Services Corporation (SHSC) operated in the Province of Ontario, Canada between 2002 and 2012 to provide group services for non-profit and co-operative housing organizations following the provincial download of over 270,000 social housing units to local municipalities. SHSC was created under the Social Housing Reform Act of ...
Housing in Scotland includes all forms of built habitation in what is now Scotland, from the earliest period of human occupation to the present day. The oldest house in Scotland dates from the Mesolithic era. In the Neolithic era settled farming led to the construction of the first stone houses. There is also evidence from this period of large ...
UK. Scotland. 56°29′18″N 2°55′32″W / 56.488342°N 2.925606°W / 56.488342; -2.925606. Whitfield is a residential, social-housing scheme located to the north of Dundee, Scotland. Building of scheme commenced in the 1960s to accommodate Dundee's expanding population. Much of the housing was low rise, deck access flats ...