Social housing: Difference between revisions

[[File:Karl-Marx-hof.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Karl Marx Hof, Vienna]]'''Social housing&nbsp;'''is housing&nbsp;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&nbsp;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.&nbsp;

Various other terms are used in different places, for exampledifferent types of social housing: for example, in the UK, ''council housing /''&nbsp;and c''ouncil estates; ''for municipal-owned housing'', ''and ''housing associations'' private non-profits; in Germany and Austria, in 20thC,&nbsp;''Siedlungen ''('settlements') and&nbsp;''Gemeindebau''&nbsp;('municipality building'); in Denmark,&nbsp;''Almennyttigt Boligbyggeri'' ('non-profit housing'), etc.&nbsp;