Social housing.

In France, for example, social housing organizations have rapidly deployed 320 million of EU money in the last few years to improve energy efficiency in existing housing stock.

Improvement and rehabilitation of the existing housing stock will receive the priority attention of the Government alongside new housing.

The stock and housing markets are unlikely to recover any time soon.

For those whose needs cannot be met in the marketplace, CMHC provides housing subsidies to support Canada's social housing stock for low income Canadians as well as to provide housing assistance for those with special distinct needs under targeted initiatives.

Today, social funds, usually reserved for subsidizing access by low income families to public housing, have been allocated to the restoration and rehabilitation of old housing stock in the historic centre of the city.

Will it be in housing again? Will it be in the stock market?

The world s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months.

Most administrative arrangements relating to social housing programs and delivery are governed by federal provincial territorial agreements on social housing.

Demographic and social statistics population and housing censuses

In keeping with our housing policy, free housing is also provided for poor families on social security.

State subsidies in housing were considerably reduced for houses as well as for modernization of the existing stock.

Through the Ministry of Social Development the Federal Government coordinates the National Social Housing Fund (FONHAPO) and the National Housing Development Commission (CONAFOVI), among other programmes.

This is where the wealth effects of now rebounding housing prices and a surging stock market come into play.

In developed economies, construction can add only a relatively small amount each year to the existing stock of housing.

People who bought into the stock market or housing market did either well or poorly, depending on their timing.

In this phase, the total investment in affordable housing in Nova Scotia will reach 56.18 million by 2008 and will be used to create new rental housing and homeownership options, and to rehabilitate or convert aging housing stock.

It is essential, in the Board apos s opinion, to reduce the housing stock to levels consistent with current needs.

(1) A Social Rehabilitation Programme, including a Housing and Construction Programme

The situation is different in emerging economies, where the quantity and quality of the existing stock of housing is woefully inadequate.

Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before.

Projects relate to construction, prevention, temporary housing and social and professional reintegration.

This covered education, health, housing, utilities, security, supply costs and social services.

The Committee is also concerned about the continuing increase in rents and the privatization of housing and about the scarcity of adequate social housing units for low income families while the social fund established to provide housing assistance has been reduced.

Because of the boom in housing and stock market prices, US household net wealth increased by around 18 trillion during 1996 2006.

Social protection, housing, employment, and labor are not on the ADB s new agenda.

These benefits include housing allowance, transport allowance medical allowance and social security benefits.

Social infrastructure and support services, including housing, settlement, water, sanitation, energy and transport

The Winnipeg Housing and Homelessness Initiative (http www.gov.mb.ca fs housing whhi.html), a partnership between Manitoba, Canada and the City of Winnipeg, to address declining housing stock, homelessness and the revitalization of Winnipeg's older neighbourhoods, was extended for an additional five years in November of 2003.

The United States, Europe, and Asia have all experienced a collapse of wealth due to the fall of stock markets and housing prices.

For example, the real estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford.

Most of the social condition complaints were in the area of access to housing.

(e) Strengthening social security policies, services and programmes, including food, health, education and housing

The Committee is concerned about the poor housing conditions, the considerable housing shortage and the absence of effective measures to provide social housing for low income families and the disadvantaged and marginalized groups.

At the core of the crisis was the run up in housing and stock prices, which were way out of line with historical benchmarks.

The Committee is concerned about the lack of sufficient and suitable housing in the State party as well as the acute shortage of social housing.

In response to social housing shortages and rising tensions over increasingly conspicuous social inequality Oman s leaders pledged to build 2,500 housing units for low income families, and to support technical training tailored to job creation.

During the period covered by the report of the Special Committee, much infrastructure, housing stock and farmland in the Occupied Palestinian Territory had been destroyed.

Social reforms were established, help to the poor increased in housing benefits and school programmes.

An increase was observed in housing construction. However, this particularly benefited the highest social strata.

I refer to measures in the sphere of education, family, employment, housing and social policy.

The situation had deteriorated particularly in social investment, especially in education, nutrition, health and housing.

403. The housing of refugees sometimes creates social tensions with local populations in receiving countries.

Fourth, increased investment in the country s social safety net includes not only universal health and social insurance, but also expanded housing subsidies.

Moreover, the Committee remains concerned about the housing shortage and the unsatisfactory condition of a high percentage of the housing stock, especially in rural areas where a significant number of dwellings lack electricity, adequate sewage disposal and piped water.