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In 2002, the Social Housing Services Corporation (SHSC) was created by the Province of Ontario to provide group services for social housing providers (public, non-profit and co-op housing) following the downloading of responsibility for over 270,000 social housing units to local municipalities. It is a non-profit corporation governed by a board ...
The poverty line for lower middle-income countries (LMICs) has moved to US$3.65 from US$3.20, while the poverty line for upper middle-income countries (UMICs) has moved to US$6.85 from US$5.50. [ 6 ] The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6. ...
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually built and owned by a government authority, either central or local. In some countries, public housing is focused on providing affordable housing for low-income earners while in others, such as Singapore, citizens across a wide range of incomes live in public housing.
The US is far from the only country where people are fed up with housing costs, per a Gallup survey. Japan is the only rich country where more than 70% of respondents were satisfied with housing.
The median multiple is used widely for analyzing housing markets and is recommended by the World Bank and the United Nations. It has also been used by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Demographia uses housing affordability ratings to categorize each housing market's median multiple. [1]
A housing affordability index (HAI) is an index that measures housing affordability, usually the degree to which the median person or family in a particular country or region can afford housing/housing-related costs. [1] [2] [3] Housing affordability is one contribution to the cost of living in an area; measured by the cost-of-living index. [3]
In 2014, Vancouver, long considered one of the least affordable cities in the world, [24] changed the definition of social housing to mean rental housing in which a minimum of 30 percent of dwelling units are occupied by households that cannot pay market rents, due to lack of income.
Poor Nations Fail to Extract $1.3 Trillion Annually from Rich Countries at U.N. Climate Change Conference (opinion) ... is up from the $100 billion promised by the developed countries at COP15 in ...