Land and housing

Housing and land rights

With such intensive use of land, our land constraints for housing construction are vanishingly small.

Housing, land and property records and documentation

States should undertake to identify and provide alternative housing and or land for such occupants, including on a temporary basis, as a means of facilitating the timely restitution of refugee and displaced persons' housing, land and property.

On the other hand, little land is available for housing and agriculture, which makes people use unproductive and or inappropriate hillsides for agricultural production and housing damaging the environment even further.

In order to minimize destruction and looting, States should develop procedures to inventory the contents of claimed housing, land and property within the context of housing, land and property restitution programmes.

Housing in Japan is characterized by limited land supply in urban areas.

All these factors must be incorporated into housing and land use planning policy.

SOEs will lose their low interest loans, subsidized land, monopoly protection, and privileged housing.

Much of the former land of these industries has been reclaimed, mostly as housing.

The Government has also increased assistance to refugees and refugees have access to social benefits and assistance for the purchase of housing and land.

Recognizing that poverty is a major obstacle to women's full realization of housing, land and property rights,

Recognizing that poverty is a major obstacle to women's full realization of housing, land and property rights,

The report indicates that the Government is concerned about the need for a comprehensive programme of land reform and that the Comprehensive Land Policy will create an enabling environment for women who are the head of the family to have access to land for housing and agriculture (para.

2.1 All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land and or property of which they were arbitrarily or unlawfully deprived, or to be compensated for any housing, land and or property that is factually impossible to restore as determined by an independent, impartial tribunal.

For example, they try to squeeze as much as possible out of land sales, thereby pushing up housing prices and helping to inflate asset bubbles.

The case concerned Ms. Grootboom and others who were living in extremely poor conditions on illegally occupied private land earmarked for formal low cost housing.

Manufactured home parks refer to housing estates where the house owner rents the land instead of owning it.

Citizens for Decent Housing

The wave of urbanization that all countries were experiencing was intensifying and exerting pressure on land, housing and sanitation.

As such, the Principles incorporate a forward looking and holistic approach to housing, land and property restitution under international law.

4.3 States shall ensure that housing, land and property restitution programmes, policies and practices do not disadvantage women and girls.

12.6 States should include housing, land and property restitution procedures, institutions and mechanisms in peace agreements and voluntary repatriation agreements.

20.1 States should designate specific public agencies to be entrusted with enforcing housing, land and property restitution decisions and judgements.

20.4 States should adopt specific measures to prevent the destruction or looting of contested or abandoned housing, land and property.

Women's equal ownership, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

Women's equal ownership, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

States should develop a legal framework for protecting the right to housing, land and property restitution which is clear, consistent and, where necessary, consolidated in a single law.

In December 2004, new plans were announced to build on this land 12 storey residential buildings with 1,200 apartments for student housing, university offices, parking lots and parks.

Relaxation of overly restrictive land development regulations and building codes, particularly in slums and informal settlements, could facilitate investments in housing construction and improvement for low income households.

This long term trend towards multifamily housing may be expected to continue, further diminishing the importance of land to home values.

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2005 Women's equal ownership, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

Women's equal ownership of, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

15.2 States should ensure that any judicial, quasi judicial, administrative or customary pronouncement regarding the rightful ownership of, or rights to, housing, land and or property is accompanied by measures to ensure registration or demarcation of that housing, land and or property as is necessary to ensure legal security of tenure.

Now, with serious congestion slowing traffic in major cities to a crawl, the land gradient in housing prices is steep once again.

12.3 States should take all appropriate administrative, legislative and judicial measures to support and facilitate the housing, land and property restitution process.

20.3 States should adopt specific measures to prevent the public obstruction of enforcement of housing, land and property restitution decisions and judgements.

We are sponsoring a continuing series of regional ministerial meetings on housing, land and urban development in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Government loans were offered for housing construction.

In improving housing for the urban poor, Governments can assume two functions facilitating housing provision and improvement by individuals and private entrepreneurs and directly providing affordable housing to the poor.

The high population of Malé and the scarcity of land have created a high demand for housing. It has also made rent in Malé comparatively one of the highest in the world.

b. Parliamentary documentation two reports to the Arab Regional Conference in preparation for the review on regional campaign on secure housing and land tenure and good urban governance and local urban observatories