Buying a home can feel like an impossible feat as large parts of the world face a housing shortage ... acquainted with the ...

He received a reply saying that foreign nationals are not allowed to live in the unit — even with a Japanese guarantor. This man faced housing discrimination in Japan. "I was perplexed," he ...

Japan has a housing safety net program and support system ... “It is a big thing that housing is included in social security, so we would like the government to outline its direction,” he ...

Practice founders Marta Peris and José Toral talk about the process of designing this Spanish-Japanese ‘matrix’ of social ...

Social housing 'mega-corporations' One aspect of ... Robin Hewings, from the Campaign To End Loneliness, said countries such as Japan had done in-depth research into isolation but the UK hadn ...

Japan has consistently been building nearly one million new ... the private sector and community housing groups in 2018 to develop and renovate 23,000 social housing units in different neighbourhoods.

Ransome is an associate professor of public health at Yale University and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. This ...

The Albanese government, which campaigned to make social housing a priority, has currently pledged to build 20,000 social homes over the next five years. Out of the 6,600 affordable properties ...

One vital policy challenge facing Japan is how to revamp its social security system in response ... nation’s health care system and securing housing for the needy and the elderly.

The new developments would be so-called "social housing," which means it exists outside the for-profit market, caps rent at a percentage of income and is owned by the government, a nonprofit ...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the findings "must be a wake-up call for failing social housing landlords" Serious failures or delays by social housing landlords have more than quadrupled in ...

Canada went too far in its response to a labor shortage following the pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday as his government unveiled a plan to slash the number of immigrants to ...