Real Estate Investing Information Blog

A public housing or project home is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a management authority, which may be central or local. Although the general goal is to maintain affordable housing, the information of the arrangements differs between countries and so does the terminology.

In France, a district of the population lives in government-subsidized housing complexes, known as HLM. The life of public housing in France has caused major civil unrest as subsidized housing complexes are regarded as the reason of high crime and urban decay in its main cities. French police now think many housing estates "no man zones" and must be a lot armed and vigilant when entering them.

In Ireland, public housing and faltering sites have been built by Local Authorities and are recognized as Local Authority Accommodation. Dublin Corporation and the former Dublin County Council provided the lion's split of Irish Local Authority Housing, with County Long ford having the biggest ratio of Local Authority to personal housing in the state. Public home in Ireland, as in North America and the U.K., is a magnet for high crime and surrounding neighborhood decay and are looked ahead as very undesirable by middle class and upper middle class peoples.

The Million Program is the common term for an ambitious housing program implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 with the plan of building one million new dwellings in 10 years; in the opening strongly influenced by the "Garden City" developments in England for the stage of the 40's - 50's, but towards the end the developments were classically built as single family homes next to curving streets and cul-de-sacs and/or as huge tower blocks, similar to a lot of housing districts built in Eastern Europe. Most were built part from pre-existing neighborhoods, often some distance from the accessible urban areas and connected via accumulation transit to the older developments and city centre