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    needs to be more funding available to build more gear to income or subsidized housing and all levels of government need to take action. Homelessness has different meanings to different people; someone who has never been homeless might think homelessness is a person who lives on the street, in a tent or in a box. Many people don’t realize that there are a number of

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    homelessness epidemic, we need to expand collaborations between institutions that already exist in D.C.to help the homeless and create a “housing first” plan that  provides both rapid  housing for the temporarily homeless  and  permanent supportive  housing for those who are chronically homeless. This policy change  may seem intuitive “give homeless people housing”, however detractors argue that it is a naive approach to a complex issue  that also costs too much.

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    Moreover, affordable housing in Highland Park seems to be decreasing for longtime residents because of prices of rent and mortgages beginning to increase with each year. As on the graph from Zillow.com, it shows the median sale price from September 1, 2017 as being $646, 448 and the median listing price is $728, 944. Based on this evidence from Zillow.com, housing prices is going to continue to increase. Although, Zillow predicts by October 31, 2018 the median listing price of houses are going to

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    Effects of Right to Buy in Housing Market of UK This proposed study examines the development of housing policy and right to buy from the view of government mentality of UK. This study focused on the difficulties not only to the purchaser of council house but also to those tenants who have not purchase tenancies in UK. This proposed study also discusses the role of social housing in 21st century housing policy. Aim of this study is to provide a framework to the researcher and to identify different

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    9. How has policy for social rented housing developed since 1979? 10. Discuss the intentions and impact of policies for home ownership since 1979. 11: HOUSING • Up to the 1970s housing policy was an integral part of the classic welfare state • With the triumph of private homeownership, government housing policy has all but disappeared, • broken up into a series of separate measures concerned with  privatisation  ‘affordability’ (rents, mortgages and house prices)

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    Many would claim these estates provide an example of where ‘social housing… become the very ghettos of multiple social deprivation that they were supposed to replace…’ and that ‘there is real concern that the current social housing system is failing the very people it was designed to help’ (Greenhalgh & Moss 2009 p6). However, Hafod believes that by retaining only these geographical areas it allows

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    In 1979 under Thatcher 's reign, the conservative government published its housing bill promising with it the Right to buy. A popular demand at the time as people living in social houses aspired to finally own their home. At the time a blessing, however 30 years later we find that the bill promised the current generation housing at a discounted price. however, only at the expense of the next. The bill forbade local authorities from replacing the council houses sold in the right to buy system. Due

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    public housing is not adequately providing safe and secure housing for the disadvantaged and needy. This paper will demonstrate the issues that arise from the poorly planned public housing developments, particularly the issues concerning spatial concentration of commission homes in low socio-economic areas. Australian government agencies are currently exploring solutions to the problems caused by public housing estates, developed primarily following World War II to address the shortage of housing. These

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    families should help alleviate the shortage for those groups or removing rent control measures. The issue of Los Angeles’s shortages in affordable housing, at face value, then seems like a no brainer. Unfortunately, these two economic solutions, like most economic solutions, cannot solve this

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    boom continues, so has one of residents’ basic needs: the cost of housing. According to U.S. Census data five of the top seven fastest growing counties in California are in the bay area, with the fastest growing county being Alameda (2010). Since the 2010 census, it was estimated Alameda would add a little over 100,000 residents by August of 2014. With the increased population the cost of living has also increased, especially housing costs. From January 2014 to January 2015, the average rent in Oakland

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