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[[File:Karl-Marx-hof.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Karl Marx Hof, Vienna]]'''Social housing '''is housing owned and/or managed by governments or private organizations for the aim of providing affordable or otherwise socially beneficial housing.<br/> <br/> Whereas the term "public housing" generally describes government-owned properties, "social housing" can include a wider range of cases, including a long earlier history of charitable or philanthropic housing for the needy, and various types of development that may be non-profit-owned or partially/indirectly supported by government action.
Various other terms are used in different places, for example: in the UK, ''council housing'' and c''ouncil estates; ''in Germany and Austria, in 20thC, ''Siedlungen ''('settlements') and ''Gemeindebau'' ('municipality building'); in Denmark, ''Almennyttigt Boligbyggeri'' ('non-profit housing'), etc. <br/> The portion of housing in different countries that could be called some form of 'social' housing varies widely, and depends on how defined. The below chart of estimates for "social ''rented dwellings" ''as a % of all housing, shows a range from 34% in Netherlands, to < 1% in Latvia.
[[File:OECD-social-rental-housing-as-percentage-of-all.jpg|thumb|left|700px|Social rental housing as % of all, across OECD]]
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To roughly estimate for the United States:
*Federal rent assistance (Public, Sec 8 project, Sec 8 voucher, etc) helps about 4.8M of 326M population, 126M households.
*3M units created so far with [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LIHTC?src=hashtag_click #LIHTC],
*plus some city/county/state-only funded projects.
=> 7.8M units / 126M households = '''6.2% or so of US housing is social/assisted low-income. '''
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