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  housing association - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about housing association
Housing associations receive grants and loans from the Housing Corporation and work in conjunction with local authorities to deal with the needs of special groups, especially the homeless.
Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (California)
Housing Authority of the County of Dauphin (Pennsylvania)
encyclopedia.farlex.com /housing+association   (202 words)

  
 Handy Capable Housing Society - Creston BC
The HCHS is a local non-profit housing society that owns and manages the Glaser Terrace apartments, a twelve-unit complex located at 1140 Scott Street in Creston, British Columbia.
Affordable housing is made possible through the Handy Capable Housing Societies affiliation with BC Housing which is a crown corporation of the Province of British Columbia, under the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services.
Affordable housing is housing that does not cost more than 30% of a household's gross monthly income.
crestonbc.com /handycapablehousing   (153 words)

  
 Housing Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In July 1961, the Society was bequeathed 2 Wilbury Road, valued at £5,500, and contents and shares valued at a further £9000, by the late Grace Taylor, on condition that the property be converted on similar lines to 4 Selbourne Road.
The Society has come a long way from the humble origins of the initial £350 funding in 1958, and is very grateful to all those whose efforts and philanthropic bequests have made this possible.
The Society is always looking for new members from the Rotary Club of Hove to take an interest in the affairs of the Community Housing Society and also the various events run for the benefit of our tenants.
www.hoverotaryclub.name /2004/housing_society.htm   (1233 words)

  
 NPR : Housing First
With the help of an innovative program that provides housing, schooling, job training and parenting skills, teen mothers are trying to break the cycle of abuse and neglect that often causes them to repeat their own mothers' troubled histories.
With one of the tightest housing markets in the country, Orange County, Calif., is a tough place for foster youth "aging out" of the system to find homes of their own.
With the help of an innovative program that provides housing, schooling, job training and lots of help with parenting skills, the teens are trying to break the cycle of abuse and neglect that often means the babies of teenage mothers end up repeating their moms’ troubled history.
www.npr.org /news/specials/housingfirst   (1276 words)

  
 SALAMAT HOUSING SOCIETY
Salamat Housing Society was established in 1991 to create affordable housing options in the community.  The society now manages Salamat Housing, and meets regularly with tenants to discuss concerns and consult on policy development.
Society volunteers help tenants and new immigrants access language courses and other education, obtain employment, and access health professionals and other community services.
The provincial government, through BC Housing, is providing $4.2 million in operating subsidies to the society over the next 35 years.
www2.news.gov.bc.ca /nrm_news_releases/2003MCAWS0083-000668-Attachment1.htm   (126 words)

  
 Handicapped Housing Society (HHS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Housing is considered affordable when it takes up no more than 32% of household income.
The Handicapped Housing Society (HHS) is looking for partners to respond to this challenge and build a better community in Red Deer.
Survey results indicate a high need for housing that is geared to income: 87% of participants listed this a priority for independent living.
www.mycommunityinformation.com /housing/downloads/hhsa.html   (693 words)

  
 Colne Housing Society Ltd.
Colne Housing Society is a Housing Association formed in the early 1970s to provide housing for people who cannot find suitable affordable housing in the area they want to live either through other landlords or home purchase.
The Society, whose Chairman is Rodney Borgartz, is governed by a Board of voluntary unpaid members with a wide range of backgrounds.
The Society is a charity registered with the Financial Services Authority, Registration Number 20799R, and is a Member of the National Housing Federation.
www.housingnet.co.uk /housingnet-html/Colne_Housing_Society_Ltd_.html   (227 words)

  
 Nene Housing Society Ltd.
Nene Housing Society is a Registered Social Landlord (RSL) registered with the Housing Corporation, and is an exempt Charity.
The Society is the largest locally based RSL in Peterborough and operates in the East Midlands and East Anglia and provides a range of social housing for people in housing need.
The Society was formed in 1973 and now manages around 3,000 rented and leasehold homes, including housing for the elderly, located mainly in the Peterborough, Nottinghamshire and Huntingdonshire areas.
www.housingnet.co.uk /housingnet-html/Nene_Housing_Society_Ltd_.html   (135 words)

  
 Brighton Lions Club Housing Society
Impressed with the concept, an anonymous donor gave sufficient funds to erect a block of 12 flats for the elderly, which was opened by the Mayor of Brighton in 1968.
A few years later the Society had the opportunity to buy another plot of land at a substantial discount to the market price and six bungalows (Lions Gardens) were built in 1976.
There was another addition to the property portfolio when a local businessman bequeathed to the Society a house converted into five flats and in 1994 the Brighton Abbeyfield Housing Society made over to the Brighton Lions Housing Society yet another house converted into five flats.
www.brightonlions.freeserve.co.uk /housing.htm   (333 words)

  
 A Routledge Journal: Housing, Theory and Society
Housing, Theory and Society furthers housing research as an integrated, multidisciplinary field that is theoretically informed and embedded in wider societal issues.
Papers in which theories developed in the social science disciplines are applied to housing, and which seek to integrate the field of housing with the disciplines so that theories and concepts are used to illuminate some issue or are tested against empirical material.
Papers which relate housing to the structure and organisation of welfare provision, and that seek to increase aware-ness of the significance of housing in the complex system of welfare delivery.
www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/14036096.asp   (303 words)

  
 Albyn Housing Society Ltd.
Albyn Housing Society Ltd. serves an ever-growing number of communities in the Highlands, providing good quality, affordable housing for thousands of people across the region.
The Society is dedicated to building homes and supporting communities in the Highlands and doing so in a way which puts quality, affordability and sustainability at the forefront of its efforts, by recognising the wider impact of housing for the people of the Highlands.
The Society is a learning organisation, keen to deliver a wide range of services to best effect in tune with the needs of its customers.
www.albynhousing.org.uk   (342 words)

  
 William Sutton Housing Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
William Sutton Housing Association (WSHA) is a charitable Industrial and Provident Society and one of the largest housing associations in England.
William Sutton Housing Association is committed to tenant involvement and is working hard to ensure that our customers continue to be involved in the decisions which affect their lives.
William Sutton is also a founding member of The Alliance, a partnership of housing associations, working together to develop a forward looking agenda and flexible approach to meet future housing needs.
www.williamsutton.org.uk   (262 words)

  
 Housing Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute AHURI is a consortium of research centres funded by Australian State and Commonwealth Governments, as well as by member universities.
Joint Center for Housing Studies The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University analyzes the ways in which housing policy and practices are shaped by economic and demographic trends.
Housing Policy Debate Quarterly journal from Fannie Mae Foundation provides insightful discussion and original research on a broad range of housing and community development issues.
www.sigmbi.org /c2lnXzUyODE1.aspx   (938 words)

  
 Back to school for housing society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
For the first time, 25 members of different cooperative housing societies attended a three-hour classroom training session on basic issues ranging from stamp duty, leave and licence to parking and lift maintenance.
Individual queries were collected from the members in the first hour of the session followed by a presentation on ‘Rights and duties of a society member’ and model bylaws of a housing society.
P P Gadagkar, treasurer, Raheja Vihar, Chandivali: Often the secretary and chairman of a housing society are ignorant of the society’s issues.
web.mid-day.com /news/city/2004/march/79757.htm   (343 words)

  
 Blakeney Neighbourhood Housing Society in Blakeney | Housing Associations Norfolk
In May Mrs Norah Clogstoun presided at a public meeting when it was decided to form a housing society and seven local people were elected to a Committee of Management.
One of the Society's aims was "to preserve Blakeney's characteristic appearance".
But the increases were eventually understood and accepted.

In 1979 fifteen of the Society's houses had been added to the official list of buildings of architectural and/or historical interest.
www.glavenvalley.co.uk /152   (908 words)

  
 McLaren Housing Society of BC | The McLaren Story
The McLaren Housing Society of British Columbia is a non-profit organization that provides safe, affordable housing to men, women and families who live with HIV/AIDS, are in financial need and yet are able to live independently.
Founded in 1987, the Society developed out of the original Housing Committee of AIDS Vancouver and is named after Ted McLaren, who was one of Vancouver’s leading advocates for affordable housing for persons with AIDS.
McLaren House was closed in September 1993 and those housing units were replaced by Portable Rent Supplements in order to better meet the needs of the clients.
www.mclarenhousing.com /html/mclarenstory.htm   (444 words)

  
 Senior Housing
Nonprofit housing society that acquires, constructs, and manages rental accommodation throughout the lower mainland.
BC Housing's "The Link" is a resource directory that provides maps and addresses of affordable housing developments for families, seniors and people with disabilities across the province.
Provides assistance to eligible residents of BC who are age 60 or over and who pay rent for their homes, so that they do not need to spend an unreasonable portion of their income for rent.
members.shaw.ca /bcseniors/senior_housing.html   (1278 words)

  
 Society Issues Housing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute - AHURI is a consortium of research centres funded by Australian State and Commonwealth Governments, as well as by member universities.
Housing Policy Debate - Quarterly journal from Fannie Mae Foundation provides insightful discussion and original research on a broad range of housing and community development issues..
Joint Center for Housing Studies - The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University analyzes the ways in which housing policy and practices are shaped by economic and demographic trends..
www.disabledsearch.co.uk /dir/Society/Issues/Housing   (970 words)

  
 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Housing crisis plan 'could increase inequality'
Without greater clarity about the types of housing and infrastructure required the growth areas could suffer from the same social inequalities found in inner cities, said IPPR senior research fellow Jim Bennett.
His report, From New Towns to Growth Areas, compared the government's plans to tackle the south-east's housing shortage by building 200,000 new homes in the region with the creation of new towns, such as Stevenage and Milton Keynes, to replace communities destroyed during the second world war.
Whereas the post-war housing strategy created self-contained communities, the sustainable communities plan, launched in 2003, envisages most residents of the growth areas commuting to work.
www.guardian.co.uk /Society/housingdemand/story/0,14488,1483600,00.html?gusrc=rss   (414 words)

  
 Homeownership Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A new Homeownership Alliance poll finds that the high cost of housing is placing significant pressure on families, causing many to make important life choices based on those costs.
The Homeownership Alliance is a coalition of trade and professional associations, nonprofits, and consumer advocates dedicated to sustaining and expanding the widespread support of America's housing system through education and research directed at the public and public officials.
The nation’s top housing and mortgage finance economists told financial analysts 2005 could be yet another record breaking year for the industry during a biannual call sponsored by the Homeownership Alliance.
www.homeownershipalliance.com   (744 words)

  
 Colne Housing Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Colne Housing Society’s waiting list is open to anyone who has a need for affordable rented housing and who cannot meet their housing needs from their own resources.
However, applications will be excluded from the Housing Waiting List where the Society is unable to ensure that appropriate support is available, or the level of support required would seriously undermine the Society’s ability to support other residents in a scheme.
Please note that we are not usually able to assist with housing quickly enough where you have been given notice to leave.
www.colnehousing.co.uk /apply_housing/apply.htm   (1146 words)

  
 M'akola Group of Societies Home Page
The ‘Victoria Native Indian Housing Society’ was incorporated on February 6, 1984 as a non-profit society.
The name was changed to the M’akola Housing Society on April 5, 1988.
The Society was originally established to provide safe, affordable housing for families of First Nations ancestry who were in core need of housing in urban centres on Vancouver Island.
www.makola.bc.ca   (77 words)

  
 Searchalot Directory for Top/Society/Issues/Housing
Research projects examine the housing search process used by immigrants and refugees, the quality and cost of the housing they obtain, the degree to which their housing needs are met, and the nature and extent of any housing-related discrimination.
In this yearlong special reporting project Housing First, NPR News explores the housing dilemmas of Americans with special needs -- and how lack of housing can stymy their efforts to join mainstream society.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University analyzes the ways in which housing policy and practices are shaped by economic and demographic trends.
www.searchalot.com /Top/Society/Issues/Housing   (801 words)

  
 Welcome to Westminster Housing Society
Westminster Housing Society was incorporated on September 16, 1993.
Over the next decade Westminster Housing has acquired and rehabilitated 12 large older houses and converted them into duplexes (2), triplexes (7), and quadruplexes (2), and a small 7 unit apartment building, depending on the size of the building.
Westminster Housing also obtained and upgraded a single family home, which was obtained as a gift.
www.westminsterhousingsociety.mb.ca   (245 words)

  
 Guinness Trust Group - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
KENNET Housing Society (KHS), which owns and manages 450 homes in Wiltshire, Bath and Somerset, isnow part of The Guinness Trust Group.
Kennet Housing Society is a general needs housing association with six staff, based in Marlborough.
Kennet Housing Society is the second housing association to join the Group in recent years.
www.guinnesstrust.org.uk /templates/news/news-item.cfm/356   (375 words)

  
 CBI submits report on housing society scam - NDTV.com - News on CBI submits report on housing society scam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a preliminary report after investigating 135 housing societies.
There have been reports of a housing society scam in the Capital, costing the government over Rs 3,000 crore.
The report submitted in the Delhi High Court says that 25 societies that were being investigated are genuine.
www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?category=National&slug=CBI+submits+report+on+housing+society+scam&id=78152   (113 words)

  
 Granta Housing Society
Granta Housing Society is a charitable housing association with over 2,200 homes in all six counties of the East Region.
The Society is also a major partner for social and health care agencies, providing accommodation for vulnerable people requiring care and support.
Granta Housing Society Ltd is a charitable housing association.
www.grantahousing.org.uk   (365 words)

  
 VCP Housing Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The mandate of the Housing Development Program is to develop accessible, affordable and appropriate housing for people with CP and other disabilities within a mixed housing environment.
The VCP, through its sister organization the VCP Housing Society, is working with government and the private sector to create innovative ways to develop and build this urgently needed housing.
To this end, the VCP Housing Society has constructed and manages an apartment complex in Vancouver B. It is also involved in other innovative housing projects in Vancouver for people with CP and other disabilities.
www.vcpgv.org /house.html   (246 words)

  
 Progressive Housing Society - About PHS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Progressive Housing Society is a not-for-profit, charitable society located in Burnaby, B.C. Originally called the Burnaby Association for the Emotionally Disabled, Progressive Housing Socieyt has been providing affordable housing and support services for adults with mental illness, to enable them to live independently in the municipality of Burnaby, since 1981.
Progressive Housing Society services are designed to assist those with serious or persistent mental illnesses to live as independently as possible.
The Progressive Housing Society focuses on assisting clients in developing and maintaining skills required to live independently, and offers affordable housing options for program participants.
wwwtest.progressivehousing.net /about_phs.php   (200 words)

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