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Housing Act (other)
Housing Act is a common title of Acts of national legislatures in many common law countries, and may refer to: Canada *National Housing Act (Canada) United Kingdom The Housing Act is a stock title used for Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom relating to housing. The following Acts of Parliament are Housing Acts passed in the United Kingdom: *Housing Act 1930, (also known as the Greenwood Act) *Housing Act 1933 *Housing Act 1935 *Housing Act 1969 *Housing Act 1980 *Housing Act 1985 *Housing Act 1988 *Housing Act 1996 *Housing Act 2004 The term Housing Act is occasionally also used to refer to housing-related United Kingdom public health legislation: *Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 *Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 *Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 Housing and Planning Act may refer to: *Housing and Planning Act 1986 *Housing and Planning Act 2016 United States *Housing Act of 1937 *Housing Act of 1949 *Housing Act of 1954 *National Housing Act o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Housing Act (Canada)
The ''National Housing Act'' (NHA)(the ''Act'') was passed by the Parliament of Canada in 1938 and was intended to promote the construction of new houses, the repair and modernization of existing houses, and the improvement of housing and living conditions. It replaced and expanded the scope of the ''Dominion Housing Act'' of 1935. The purpose of the NHA set out in section 3 "in relation to financing for housing, is to promote housing affordability and choice, to facilitate access to, and competition and efficiency in the provision of, housing finance, to protect the availability of adequate funding for housing at low cost, and generally to contribute to the well-being of the housing sector in the national economy." In 1945, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (later renamed Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) was created to administer the NHA. Replacement ''National Housing Acts'' were passed in 1944 and 1954. Major amendments to these acts occurred in 1948, 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |