noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
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The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a housing/residential complex (= for people to live in )
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Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach.
a property/housing boom (= a sudden increase in house prices )
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People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
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The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
council/industrial/housing etc estate
defence/energy/housing etc policy
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Our energy policies must put the environment first.
housing association
housing estate
housing project
housing/building land British English (= land where houses can be built )
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The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
public housing
social housing
the housing/property etc market
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Investors in the property market are worried about rising inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
affordable
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Reference was made to the need for affordable housing .
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And she revealed that first time buyers in Northern Ireland have the most affordable housing in Britain.
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There is also a lack of affordable housing for rent or purchase by young couples in the villages.
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Providing good housing Decent, affordable and safe housing is vital to personal happiness and family life.
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Low cost housing Affordable housing for families had become a priority.
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Winning design awards may be more important than building affordable , practical housing estates.
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We will therefore create a new Partnership Housing sector to ensure high-quality affordable rented housing .
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There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments.
bad
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Families who are desperate for housing are forced to accept bad housing offers simply because they have no other choice.
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I know that it has one of the worst housing problems in the country.
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It highlighted all the issues of the unhealthiness of industrial towns, of poverty, bad housing and squalid environments.
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The sad fact is, however, that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group.
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Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing , longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
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Poor conditions, bad housing , unemployment and racism take their toll on black people's mental health.
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It is a shabby justification for bad behaviour to say that society or bad housing or education is responsible.
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The hell that is Easterhouse Dominic and his family live in one of Glasgow's worst housing estates.
large
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Some crews, such as those from large housing estates, had 200 or more members.
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In Brussels, the method used to drain one large stable housing about 200 horses was also noted favourably.
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The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
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With influential links to central government the Eldonian Community in Vauxhall has developed the largest new-build housing co-operative in the country.
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Pre-construction work is already under way on four large housing estates in the borough of Waltham Forest.
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Very recently the Pitlake area has been redeveloped and a large housing estate built on part of the former Croydon Airport.
local
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These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations, depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock.
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The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
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Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
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It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
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Some other local housing authorities such as Islington or Walsall are pursuing schemes of widespread decentralisation of housing management.
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The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate.
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Both local housing authorities and housing associations will try to be helpful in finding somewhere suitable to adapt for you.
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That will have a fantastic effect on local housing and the lack of facilities in my constituency.
new
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An increase in mortgage interest rates depresses the demand for home loans as individuals reduce their demand for new housing .
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The answers have suggested new designs for housing , which are coming on the market.
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At Exmouth there are plans to redevelop the old docks for new housing .
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Mr Jack Kemp, the new housing secretary, promises vigorous enforcement of the law.
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The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.
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This includes control over new housing and industry, or arbitration between urban expansion and rural conservation.
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In a little town called Alcester a new housing development of three roads has been recently completed.
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Detectives are investigating a spate of thefts from a new housing development in Derry.
poor
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As homeowners, disabled people are more likely than other households to experience poor housing conditions.
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Nurses in that sector have to cope with the effects on their patients of poor housing conditions and a deteriorating social fabric.
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Construction and property profits were well ahead, offsetting poor housing results.
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Trials Poverty and poor housing conditions.
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People with poor housing conditions have to stay in hospital longer.
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Old people with poor housing and with no families or supportive neighbours fill more geriatric beds.
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For a start, it allows the poor into the housing market by keeping costs low and not threatening higher-income groups.
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There are many complaints about the poor quality of housing for teachers.
private
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Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city.
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The quality and price of private housing varies enormously both between city centres and suburbs and between different geographical areas.
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The high cost of private housing in a contracting market is a crucial factor in considering the consequences for student well-being.
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The sale of the remaining rented houses to private or housing association landlords has been less successful.
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Once the constraints on local authority capital expenditure began to bite it cooperated with private housing development on inner-area sites.
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In addition the research provides a basis for assessing the pattern for future private housing provision in the province.
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Exterior plaster and paintwork, whether on public buildings or private housing , is allowed to flake and crumble.
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Until the property-price boom, halls were often more expensive than private housing .
public
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This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing , by those who inhabit it.
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The first thing we did was offer to sell public housing to the people who lived in it.
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Another crucial planning innovation, with major implications for the provision of public housing , was the New Towns Act of 1946.
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Any visitors who come to the Province can see the quality of public housing in Northern Ireland.
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This enormous decline in public housing was largely due to a government-induced squeeze on local authority expenditure.
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These included unemployment insurance, public health and housing , and the extension of old-age pensions.
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What are the effects of public housing upon the market of housing?
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The preliminary results reinforced what many people had suspected about the state of private and public sector housing .
rented
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Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
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These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.
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Some companies also reimburse costs incurred through premature termination of contracts for leased or rented housing as a result of the relocation.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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We will therefore create a new Partnership Housing sector to ensure high-quality affordable rented housing .
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Housing associations, which are in the private sector, are now the main providers of new social rented housing .
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We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation.
rural
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It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
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The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population.
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During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful.
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This classification is a useful starting point for the study of rural housing .
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These trends have continued since 1945. Rural housing within reach of farm workers has come to be in even shorter supply.
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The problems of rural housing went almost untouched.
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The crux of the tied cottage problem, it was argued, was the shortage of rural housing .
sheltered
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The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing .
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The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
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For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
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We could have built many schools, sheltered housing schemes and sports centres with those millions of pounds.
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In sheltered housing the warden has a very important part to play.
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Kitchen fire: Firemen tackled a fire in the Albany Court old people's sheltered housing complex in Hartlepool.
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He is widowed and now lives alone in a ground floor fiat in a warden controlled sheltered housing scheme.
social
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Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
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Since 1985-86 alone, total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion.
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The package is designed to be used with staff from health, social services, housing , voluntary and private agencies.
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There are constraining elements affecting the owner-occupied sector, and those impinging on social housing .
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In housing , inequalities in basic standards have narrowed but the same can not be said in relation to the social standards of housing.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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As expected, the association between social class and housing tenure is very strong.
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MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision.
■ NOUN
area
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This will provide a break between shopping and housing areas .
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These include some of the city's peripheral housing areas and parts of the other Districts.
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These environmental problems associated with traffic in housing areas affect very large numbers of people.
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We fail to design pedestrian-friendly cars, to enforce slow speeds in housing areas , or to educate drivers in pedestrian safety.
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The saga of North Shields town centre and adjacent housing areas .
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No legal change in priority has been contemplated, so that drivers may continue to assume dominance over foot traffic in housing areas .
association
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The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region.
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Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations .
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The question arises whether some of our married quarters may be sold to housing associations who will give priority to service men.
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Only one knew how many such properties were provided by housing associations in their area.
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Schools and housing associations can opt out of local authority control.
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We will also encourage the Corporation to extend opportunities for tenant involvement in the management of housing association properties.
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It would be replaced by a mixture of housing associations , tenants' co-ownership schemes and further individual ownership.
authority
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The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
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Local authority housing is the responsibility of the lower-tier local authorities.
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Housing management Fundamentally, the system of local authority housing management has its roots in the early work of Octavia Hill.
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When they came to power in 1970 the Conservatives decided that public expenditure on local authority housing needed to be curbed.
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For example, one aim of a business plan may be to acquire the local authority housing department as a new client.
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I am concerned about clause 3 and its effect on local authority housing .
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We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management, and examine how to apply it to white-collar services.
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Local authority housing expenditure suffered most.
benefit
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This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.
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The few that are not - those with high housing benefit - can be helped through the access funds.
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Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.
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Housing Benefit Scheme Changes in the value of housing benefit constitute the sixth reform of welfare since 1979.
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In fact, the housing benefit scheme only came fully into operation in April 1983.
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The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit .
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If the strictures of the Conservative party against the implications of socialism were implemented, there would be no housing benefit .
committee
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The housing committee agreed the across-the-board increases on Thursday.
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The project will involve the borough council's housing committee .
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The council's housing committee is to consider the plea today.
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A full investigation of the incident was continuing yesterday and a full report will be prepared for the next housing committee meeting.
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Members of the housing committee are expected to approve the investigation at their meeting on Wednesday.
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The housing committee says it no longer has any use for the site and it will now be open to private development.
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But housing committee chairman, Bill Dixon, said the criticism related to a time before Labour was in office.
costs
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A different index, the Rossi index, omits housing costs .
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As before, their distribution among institutions takes account of student numbers and regional variations in housing costs .
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Owner-occupiers tend to delay childbearing because they face heavy housing costs at the beginning of their marriage.
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If the employer offers assistance towards housing costs , worries about living in a more expensive environment may be allayed.
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It also provided approximately 40% of the stipends and housing costs of the 11,500 serving clergy.
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Compensation packages for expatriates coming to Britain usually cover schooling costs , private medical care and housing costs.
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This is not cheap: housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner's income, as opposed to 14% in the 1950s.
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This has pushed up housing costs and forced retirees with some capital but often on fixed incomes to seek out cheaper places.
department
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Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
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So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department ?
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Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
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Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
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If you are living in council property you must discuss adapting your house with the housing department .
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In two cases these policies had been developed as a result of dialogue between the housing department and local disability organisations.
development
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These had expanded in intensity after the First World War, with extensive housing development in the areas served.
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The trees came down and the housing developments went up.
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With regard to housing development in, as opposed to around, North Shields, the same is true with one qualification.
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Planning permission for a big housing development has been refused, and the group is in deep trouble over it.
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In a little town called Alcester a new housing development of three roads has been recently completed.
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The population in 1981 was 1,640 but housing development since then has substantially increased this number.
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And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade.
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MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision.
estate
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The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate .
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Farmland is being changed into housing estates , into factory sites and into roads, motorways and airfields.
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This afternoon we went to see a new workers' housing estate and visited some homes.
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Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class.
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The prospect of designing among nature rather than battling with cement and glass and housing estates appealed enormously.
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Extensive community work and interviews with young Arsenal supporters in a run-down housing estate by Robbins and Cohen confirmed this impression.
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Inpart, this is due to the higher profile of socio-legal agencies on working-class housing estates where the user is more visible.
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Winning design awards may be more important than building affordable, practical housing estates .
land
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The increased width of road can be achieved without further encroachment on to the Magdalene housing land . 8.
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The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.
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I have noted your suggestion that further housing land should be allocated at Aberlady.
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In other words the five year housing land supply should not be the Structure Plan requirement plus an allowance of 60%.
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They also sold infrastructure and public sector housing land to the councils at historic cost plus interest rather than developed land value.
market
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Equally, stagnation in the housing market has been most severely felt in the south east.
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And in comparison with the South-East, the North's housing market looks positively buoyant.
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We have grown our mortgage book very substantially in a stagnant housing market .
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Solicitors' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse.
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But the long recession, together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market , has changed homeowners' perceptions.
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The state was as reluctant to intervene in the housing market , despite its manifest deficiencies.
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However, life assurance business was strongly related to the boom in the housing market which came to an end in 1988.
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They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years.
need
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The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come.
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National associations also tend to sponsor larger schemes in the more important settlements rather than in areas of isolated housing need .
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Consideration was given to housing need in two Acts in 1919.
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That will be good for the building industry and for meeting housing need .
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The intention was to meet housing need through public sector construction.
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These will either be sold or let on short term leases to those in housing need .
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Local authorities will be encouraged to offer those in housing need the opportunity to restore and improve council properties.
policy
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Chapter 10 looks at housing policy .
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There has been much criticism of the government's housing policy , much of it from organisations outside parliament.
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The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population.
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Local authorities' ability to plan and develop a co-ordinated housing policy has been curtailed.
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It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect.
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No housing policy can be sound which does not deal courageously with rent restriction as a whole.
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There are also some other public-private interactions of some significance for housing policy .
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The Government's housing policy is abysmal.
problem
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Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material - a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems .
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I know that it has one of the worst housing problems in the country.
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She fears Swindon's housing problems can only get worse.
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Efforts of this kind, considerable though they were, could not solve the immense housing problem .
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The most acute of Derry's housing problems was the Springtown Camp.
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But the housing problems of the big cities would not go away.
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There was no housing problem here.
provision
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Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility, declined in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Many hon. Members have spoken about the pressures on our social services and educational and housing provision .
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Since 1985-86 alone, total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion.
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They consider, interalia, the position of old people in regard to health and housing provision .
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In addition the research provides a basis for assessing the pattern for future private housing provision in the province.
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MDC's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision .
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As a result, it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision .
scheme
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Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
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All three live in a Bradford housing scheme in Middlesbrough.
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We could have built many schools, sheltered housing schemes and sports centres with those millions of pounds.
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Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village's own housing scheme .
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Each property will have two bedrooms and 20 new homes will be provided by the housing scheme .
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The authority has gained a reputation for innovative housing schemes .
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They design wonderful housing schemes for us to live in.
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It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.
shortage
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In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.
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The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake, which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools.
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This would include tackling the problems of housing shortages and population growth.
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Because of the extreme housing shortage it's a first-come, first-served, first-secured process.
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This success suggested that the general housing shortage was now considerably eased, and attention returned to slum clearance.
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All signs of a housing shortage had disappeared by 1963.
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Moreover, the fundamental problem remains that of the housing shortage .
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These were years of housing shortage and this was frequently the reason.
stock
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Demographic structure and housing Changes in family structures since 1960 have coincided with changes in housing stock .
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These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations, depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock .
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Meanwhile the housing stock was being changed.
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Her area has many people with learning disabilities; the community is tolerant and the housing stock suits conversion.
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These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock .
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It is because I share it that I must draw attention to the scandalous mismanagement of the housing stock in Liverpool.
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Failure to improve the condition of the remaining housing stock has also played an important part in the rise of ghetto conditions.
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It would improve the housing stock and decrease the future need for renovation and repair.
tenure
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They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
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It is clear that housing tenure is associated with major differentials in patterns of marriage and childbearing.
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As expected, the association between social class and housing tenure is very strong.
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What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial.
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This strongly suggests that housing tenure is associated with more substantial and fundamental aspects than simply housing matters.
■ VERB
build
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Money must be found to build the new loose housing , which it says will then also cost more to run.
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Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
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What a good idea to build us a new housing estate so that we can pay property tax!
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This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box, often on or replacing the lid.
improve
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It included government-sponsored contributory old-age pensions, and eight-hour day and improved working-class housing .
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There is, therefore, a real and urgent need to improve the housing conditions of the elderly.
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Steps will be taken to improve sub-standard housing .
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Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing .
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It would improve the housing stock and decrease the future need for renovation and repair.
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It also features schemes to improve car parking, housing and industry.
live
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Viceversa, the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great.
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The impression has been given that they can not live independently in ordinary housing .
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He lives alone in a housing association flat on the top two floors of a house in Tufnell Park.
provide
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Local authority associations have identified the need for additional resources to provide both housing and education of the children of refugees.
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In the New Towns special development corporations provide public housing .
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Each property will have two bedrooms and 20 new homes will be provided by the housing scheme.
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The plaintiff was held to have an action for breach of statutory duty where the council failed to provide housing .
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Only one knew how many such properties were provided by housing associations in their area.
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The company only provides housing while you're working.
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The Corporation provides money to housing associations which rent and sell property.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
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Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
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Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
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Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
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The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
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This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
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A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
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Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
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For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
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Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
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The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
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The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
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We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
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With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Any plan that can provide affordable housing would be a plus.
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Hundreds of students are still looking for housing near campus.
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Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.
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public housing
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the housing authority
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The council is making a great effort to provide cheap housing and more public facilities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A joint commission was established to co-ordinate actions on economy, law, pensions, housing , energy and ecology.
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Investment in housing , transport, education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory.
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The company was quite aware of the housing problems, and rented accommodation wherever it was available.
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The future must bring increased availability of housing and social facilities.
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This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.