housing agency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhousingandagency
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housing
noun[U]
uk/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/us/ˈhaʊ.zɪŋ/
buildings for people to ...
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agency
noun
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/us/ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/
a business that represents one group of people when dealing with ...
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(Definition ofhousingandagencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The development board is not a generalhousingagency.
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There is some sense in a unifiedhousingagency.
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If there is any ideal activity for a unifiedhousingagency, perhaps that is it —it should produce such a survey.
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If the rental income was paid directly to a defencehousingagency, it would probably have an income of at least £48 million per annum.
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I do not essentially object to the concept of a unifiedhousingagency.
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I cannot think of any significant source of comment that has done other than welcome the concept of a unifiedhousingagency.
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That is the experience of just about everyhousingagencyin this country.
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In effect, it was to act as ahousingagencyin its own right.
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It will transfer one publichousingagencyto another public housing body.
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However, that situation exists and if any unifiedhousingagencyis worth its salt, that is the sort of thing that it should look at and deal with.
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Such a proposal would mean that thehousingagencywould be responsible for ensuring that a house would be available to the agricultural worker on the spot.
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On the other hand, thehousingagencypeople would be accepting a financial responsibility to cover my costs of replacement, or repair of faults which had developed.
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He mentioned ahousingagency.
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Every knownhousingagency, non-political or whatever it may be in the country, has come down forcefully to say that over the period there is a shortage of houses.
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The statehousingagencywas established in 1971 to set and administer overall state housing policies.
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The article focuses on housing agencies with charitable status, and on three periods - pre-1914, the 1950s and the 1970s.
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Conflicts between charitable and non-charitable housing agencies were predictable.
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Pragmatic acceptance of 'quasi-charitable' status, confer red by parliament in pursuance of a political housing programme reduced the independence of voluntary housing agencies while increasing the influence of the state.
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Despite the expansion of non-profit housing agencies that these measures produced, the argument has been that central control of the voluntary sector also increased, especially after 1979.
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Housing agencies have taken over the work of the previous new town development corporations.
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