It includes Section 8 rental assistance for nearly another 4 million private housing units.
The stigma of social housing can often be eliminated by making it indistinguishable from neighbouring private housing.
In 2006, the local authority's tenants voted against transferring ownership of 14, 500 homes to a private housing association.
As the chart shows, new orders for private housing and commercial buildings increased in the last quarter of 2009.
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One can, with money alone, buy not only basic commodities but also private housing, private schooling, and private health care.
"If you are in private housing and do get housing benefit you don't get money for an extra room, " he said.
He worked for HUD under Bill Clinton, and has spent time in academia as well as in the private housing sector.
The government, for example, issues vouchers with which the poor can buy private housing, and pays non-profit groups to run orphanages.
The law requires public-housing authorities to decide whether improving such projects is cheaper than simply giving residents vouchers to find private housing.
The development combines social and private housing with work and leisure facilities and is designed to put the needs of people before cars.
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The Landlord and Tenants (Private Housing) Bill 2013 aims to achieve a fair and reasonable balance between the rights of landlords and tenants.
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Institutional investors could fund the large-scale building of private housing for rent, a report for the government by Sir Adrian Montague has said.
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The city got 150 households into private housing paid for by the federal government's Section 8 housing program, and many also into city-operated public housing.
In August, Prime Minister David Cameron suggested tenants in England should get fixed-term contracts and be encouraged to move into the private housing sector if their finances improve.
But Mr Cameron said people who succeed in getting better-paid jobs should be encouraged into the private housing sector, saying there needed to be more "flexibility" in the system.
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Growth in private housing and infrastructure accounted for much of the rise, the ONS said, but this was partially offset by decreases in new public non-housing work and private housing repair and maintenance.
From 1994 to 1998, nearly 1, 800 of them were offered vouchers to subsidize private housing, but the vouchers were only good in higher-income neighborhoods where fewer than 10 percent of the people were considered poor.
The leading executive of a public-private housing finance institution who brags to me that she got out just in time without being stained by the crisis, her extraordinary small fortune intact.
The Communities and Local Government Committee (at 4.10pm) ponders the state of the private rented housing sector, with academics, Shelter, the Local Government Association and the National Private Tenants Association.
Social Care Minister Chris Robertshaw said the island needed effective regulation of private rented housing.
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He said it was "essential if existing and prospective tenants are to have confidence in private rented housing on the island".
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This is a country of private property, and housing is private property.
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Private-housing prices in the city-state's core central region rose 0.6% in the second quarter, compared with a 0.6% fall in the January-April period.
It's a five-star private hospital housing state of the art technology.
The Communities and Local Government Committee were due to venture to Leeds town hall for the latest session in its inquiry into private rented housing, but that trip has been cancelled so that its members can remain in Westminster for crucial votes on press regulation.
Persimmon Homes said the development would be a mixture of private and affordable housing.
And the problem is that that private recession in housing is now spilling over into the broad economy.
Housing Minister Mark Prisk said that, "with over three million people relying on the private rented sector for their housing needs, we are determined to attract new players to the market and pull out all the stops to get Britain building".
The residence searched by the FBI is private off-campus housing for UMass Dartmouth students, Richard said.
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