Public housing Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Although the principles are common, the details of the arrangements differ between countries, and so does the terminology.
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Canada
Arrangements and terminology in Canada are similar to those in the United States
Ireland
In Ireland, public housing and halting sites have been built by Local Authorities and are known as Local Authority Accommodation. Dublin Corporation and the former Dublin County Council provided the lion's share of Irish Local Authority Housing, with County Longford having the largest ratio of Local Authority to private housing in the state.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, public housing is referred to as State housing
Singapore
In Singapore, public housing is made by HDB.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom public housing is often referred to as "council housing" and "council estate," and is described in the article on that subject. Local not-for-profit housing associations have begun to operate some of the older council housing estates in the United Kingdom.
United States and Canada
In the United States and Canada, public housing is usually a block of purpose-built housing operated by a government agency. Most housing communities were developed from the 1930s onward. Houses, apartments or other residential units are usually subsidized on a rent-geared-to-income (RGI) basis. Some communities have now embraced a mixed income, with both assisted and market rents, when allocating homes as they become available. Large multi-story buildings, often in large groups of similar buildings were popular government designs of the 1950s and 1960s. These are often called housing projects or "the projects."
In recent years, many such projects have been torn down, renovated or replaced after criticism that the concentration of poverty in economically depressed areas, inadequate management of the buildings, and government indifference have contributed to increased crime. Indeed, US public housing continues to have a reputation for violence, drug use, and prostitution, leading to the passage, in 1996, of a federal "one strike you're out" law, calling for the eviction of project tenants whose housing units are the scene of certain types of criminal activity, especially that which is drug-related.
In 1997, the top providers of US public housing, according to HUD were:
- New York City, 160,000 units
- Puerto Rico, 57,000 units
- Chicago, 40,000 units
- Philadelphia, 22,000 units
- Baltimore, 18,000 units
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