Residents pay rent, most houses have kitchens and electricity, and building materials range from flimsy corrugated-iron shacks to permanent, multistorey concrete structures.
The real rise in housing starts is in rental apartments, as investors buy foreclosed single-family houses to rent.
Miss Waterhouse donated the land and created a charitable trust to build six houses for rent for local people.
In some parts of the country, houses bought to rent out are given names because they attract attention and are more memorable.
Ocean has already placed an order with Frame Homes for 35 houses, 20 for rent and 15 for shared ownership, at Carclaze Yard, St Austell.
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One especially enterprising worker, amazed at the high rents in these global cities compared with his village on Sumatra, started to rent apartments to sublet as rooming houses for his friends.
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Now suppose you swapped houses and paid each other rent.
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The idea is to rehab the houses and either sell them outright or rent them to people who, with financial counseling, can eventually take over the mortgage.
The inquiry covers the quality of housing in the sector, rent levels and the regulation of landlords, letting agents and houses in multiple occupation.
They also want sufficient resources to be made available so that Housing Associations can buy houses and then let them to local families at a fair rent.
Now in Atlanta, Georgia, she owns two houses because she can't find a way to sell or rent one of them.
But we can't think about pensions and buying houses because we've got to get an actual job and pay the rent.
Websites track "haunted houses" or hongza, as they are known in Cantonese, which typically sell or rent for discounted prices.
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Houses were not ideal rental candidates because there was no shortage of apartment units and other for-rent housing options.
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