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Pacific women heard on right to land and housing

Themes arising from the Pacific consultation include the sources and solutions to land tenure systems, indigenous land rights and discrimination, women’s housing rights and problems related to domestic violence, inadequate housing conditions, urbanisation and squatter settlements, civil conflict, legal, cultural and traditional barriers, water and basic sanitation.

Questions on Tenure and Social Rents in USA

“social housing” is taken below as public housing (housing built owned and managed by local housing authorities with Federal subsidies under the United States Housing Act of 1937). There have been a number of programs of support for moderate income housing developed, owned, and managed by non-profits; they are less in number than public housing, and subsidies are limited. Tax credits also “subsidize” an even smaller number of units, and primarily for moderate, not low, income households, but are increasingly relied upon for the production of new housing at costs below what the market would provide.