Veronica Grimley lately B1, Scottish Executive. (Polbeth, West Lothian) Harriet Haire (Clydebank, Dunbartonshire) - For services to the Trafalgar Housing Co-operative, Dalmuir, Clydebank.
Tessa Harding said services such as health, social services and housing were not co-ordinated for elderly people at the moment.
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations called for the UK government to ensure that housing associations and co-operatives have equal access to UK schemes to improve energy efficiency.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges asked Mr Lewis to look at the provision of co-operative housing as an affordable model of home ownership and Mr Lewis confirmed that various schemes were "on the starting blocks".
"Older generations own more than two-thirds of the nation's housing stock, " says Angus Hanton co-founder of the foundation.
There, a co-ordinated approach involving housing, local-authority services, schools and police has improved matters, reducing crime and truancy.
Among notable promotions, Maria Miller and Theresa Villiers join the cabinet as Culture Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary and Housing Minister Grant Shapps becomes Tory Party co-chairman.
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The problem, says Richard Blakeway, the mayor's housing adviser, isn't money but co-ordination, among boroughs and health and prison services too.
"I think race is central to this discussion, " said John Henneberger, co-founder of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service.
In 1999 Texas authorised a colonias initiative to co-ordinate state efforts to improve transport, housing, health and water, and hundreds of millions of state dollars have been allocated for the work over the past decade.
Yet if they are failing to tackle deep-seated problems across the province, such as segregation in housing and education, they are leading by example: their political co-operation has gone hand in hand with remarkably improved personal relations.
"The 'housing crisis' is increasingly an issue of how our housing stock is shared between younger and older generations, " said IF co-founder Angus Hanton.
Mello believes that smoking could be regulated in public housing in the same way that drugs and alcohol are, but she and her co-authors note that penalties -- including eviction- may be hard to impose.
As state senator, he acted upon a strong real estate interest, co-authoring an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for low-cost housing developers.
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"The probability of a collapse in housing or another significant leg down has diminished, " says Joshua Anderson, a portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Co.
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