How does government use subsidies and housing finance mechanisms to support/control housing provision/use?
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flippin eck...can't you ask something like" I like a girl but she doesn't like me....?"\n\nQ? too complicated for this forum I would suggest, but your answer might like to look at the Housing Market Renewal phenomenon in the UK/North....selected renewal/removal in order to drive up house prices and halt negative equity & gen eco decline....that's the theory....someone from Univ of Birmingham's I think....prescott bought it and communities have been living with the consequences ever since...
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They can change interest rates and buy/sell bonds on the open market.  I don't remember the last.  They probably use bonds the most often because the government uses that to finance itself.
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) and Grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. But you'd be hard pressed to find any grant that would support individuals.\n\nTo check for available housing grants, go to HUD http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm\n\n\nhttp://www.cfda.gov\nhttp://www.grants.gov\nhttp://gtionline.fdncenter.org\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm\nhttp://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html
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go to the council or housing associations
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You mean your retired and living on a government check?\n\nIf your living in private housing... They can raise the rent all they want.  Unless your local has rent control laws. \n\nIts called business.
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Hud. Housing Authority, but your going to have to wait in line; because the Republicans cut their budget out. They also have to inspect the home, and it has to be approved, strick guide-lines. I have 18 of them now.
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I suggest you check out non profits, who are the recipients of most housing grants. Check out Habitat for Humanity. \n\nAlso visit the Nehemiah Corp as they have a downpayment assistance program for qualified lenders http://www.getdownpayment.com/\n\nThe Housing and Urban Development in their Grants Available page makes it clear that they do not provide grants to individuals -- hence no grants for a person to buy a home http://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm\n\n"While HUD does not offer direct grants or loans to individuals, we do work through local governments and non-profit organizations to make financial assistance and counseling available."\n\n You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two FREE sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.\n\nNote though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants.
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section 8 vouchers.\n\nThis is a federal program that funds state and local govts. So your city will have a housing authority of some sort set up. They may even add more money than the federal govt gives them.\n\nYou have to get on a list most likely and they will interview you and see if you qualify. Then at some point they will give you the voucher.\n\nNext problem is to find a landlord willing to do it. Many think you wont take care of the place and don't want to rent to you. The program usually doesnt pay everything they just pay a lot, whatever you qualify for. You pay your portion to the landlord and the govt sends them a check for the rest. They also may not want to cause there is a limit on what can be charged. If the house is worth more you can forget it, so plan on not getting the best part of town or the nicest place. \n\nSome landlords will want to do it because the house isn't worth more, these are the houses you will want to stay away from. It would be better to have a landlord asking you what section 8 is and playing to their compasionate side if you are looking for a decent place to live than to find one hunting section 8 prospects down.\n\nYou will need to find housing that will accept you once you have been approved. The process may take some time as there may be a waiting list. Ask them how long it is.\n\nAt least you will be on the road to getting out, showing your parents that you are moving toward it may help the relationship while you wait.\n\nGood luck
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The following strategies have been employed by successive governments:\n1.  Subsidised Fertilser.\n2.  Construction of silos\n3.  Loans for Mechanised Agriculture.\n4.  Establishment of the Nigeran Agricultural Cooperative Bank.\n5.  Funding of various research projects and institutes such as IAR, NAERLS, NAPRI etc
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the government offers some help with down payments for first time buyers. there may be some criteria though. may be worth checking into.
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Theoretically, government regulation of imperfect markets is in order to cause the market to reach the efficient output and price of a particular good that would not otherwise be reached, because of some adverse conditions.\n\nThere are several classic examples, and they illustrate well the variety of ways the government can intervene in imperfect markets. In education, for instance, people have little incentive to go to school for as long as is necessary, because the benefits are so delayed, so the government subsidizes education, giving grants, low interest loans, giving money to institutions to create an artificial surplus of schools, etc.\n\nAnother example is roads. Companies have no incentive whatsoever to build public roads, because there is no way, other than on toll roads, to reap any benefit. Therefore, the government simply takes over the production of that particular good, toll roads aside.\n\nA related, though somewhat outdated example is lighthouses. A company would never make a lighthouse, because there is literally no way to get paid for running it, so the government must build and maintain lighthouses for the public good.\n\nGovernment allowed monopolies are not an example of this sort of imperfect market control. Utilities are not imperfect markets by any means. If there was complete competition in the electricity markey, the efficient output and price would be reached rather easily. Instead, that is an instance of maximizing the benefit of economies of scale.
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This answer would be specific to England/Wales only\n\nCommunity tax is case-specific, however, knowing local authorities' need for money, especially in areas where there are a high concentration of second homes, I believe that you would have to prove that there is no way that you can occupy the house before you would be exempt from paying Council tax. As a second home, the charge would be half of the tax for a home of the same banding in the district
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Its all up to the individual landlord. They can discount what they see fit.
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ministry of housing.com.au
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the state government has to give in their proposals for grants.depending on many factors, the fed govt forwards grants to those states.if the state govt really needs development more funds are allowed..or if the state is of national importantce like the capital, more funds are forwarded...
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it depends on the funding of the city sadly. without money nobody can be hired or nothing can be bought without money. unless dedicated citizens got together to help form some type of coalition, like a mega sized neighborhood watch.
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Go to City Hall, ask for HUD assistance, good luck. Have you considered housesitting? You get paid to watch someone else's house.  Have you thought about live-in caretaker? You have options.