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housing scheme

noun

  1. a local-authority housing plan

  2. the houses built according to such a plan; housing estate

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He says the housing scheme in Lewisham helps to tackle "a crisis of affordable housing, particularly for young people, a crisis of loneliness, which affects not just older people, but also young people. And we also have an issue about age segregation, which has multiple impacts on our society".

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But much of the four and a half acre site in Rhos on Sea, Colwyn Bay, which is surrounded on all sides by existing housing, is grass which would need to be cut on a regular basis until work on the new housing scheme begins.

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She was responding after a number of attacks on homes in a mixed housing scheme in north Belfast, which has led some residents to say they plan to leave the area.

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Clanmil Housing Association, which operates the housing scheme, has said the attacks are a "sectarian-motivated hate crime".

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A council spokesperson added: "The council has also introduced a Community Housing Scheme, an equity sharing product, to support people to get on the housing ladder."

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