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	National Home of Your Own Alliance URL: http://alliance.unh.edu/ ODP description: Funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities to promote opportunities for people with disabilities to own and control their homes. Page title: CHANCE
	Australasian Housing Information Network URL: http://www.ahin.infoxchange.net.au/ ODP description: News, reports, conferences and employment opportunities from leading Australian housing policy and research centres. Page title: Infoxchange Australia - Technology for Social Justice
	Building More, Wanting Less URL: http://www.onesmallproject.com/ ODP description: Wes Janz, Professor of Architecture at Ball State University, photographs and comments on living conditions in working class neighborhoods of cities across the world. Contributions by others and further submissions requested. Page title: onesmallproject.com
	Joseph Rowntree Foundation URL: http://www.jrf.org.uk/ ODP description: Independent development and social research charity, supporting a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. Page title: Joseph Rowntree Foundation: social policy research and development charity Page description: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a social policy research and development charity, seeking to better understand the causes of social difficulties such as poverty and housing and explore ways of overcoming them.
	BUBL Link: Housing URL: http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/h/housing.htm ODP description: Online library features links to resources related to social housing. Page title: BUBL LINK: Housing
	Chartered Institute of Housing URL: http://www.cih.org/ ODP description: A professional body for people working in housing in the United Kingdom. Promotes the provision and management of good quality, affordable housing. Page title: The Chartered Institute of Housing Page description: The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional organisation for people who work in housing. Its purpose is to maximise the contribution housing professionals make to the wellbeing of communities. The CIH has over 19,000 members across the UK and the Asian Pacific working in a range of organisations - including housing associations, local authorities, arms length management organisations, the private sector and educational inst...
	The Price Is Wrong URL: http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=541 ODP description: Article by Errol T. Louis in City Limits magazine [New York] examining the way appraisal "redlining" skews estimated community property values downward.
	Almanac of Policy Issues: Housing URL: http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/housing.shtml ODP description: News, background information, and links on U.S. housing issues, including public housing, Section 8 vouchers, and rent control. Page title: Housing - Almanac of Policy Issues Page description: Links to sites and reports on U.S. housing policy issues.
	Housing Studies Association URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hsa/ ODP description: United Kingdom forum for housing related research and debate. Details of conference and events as well as recent publications from HSA.
	Housing Information Gateway URL: http://www.colorado.edu/plan/housing-info/ ODP description: Searchable international database on housing experts, organizations, events, bibliographies, and listservs that allows users to post additional information. Page uses frames. Page description: Searchable database on housing experts, organizations, events, and listservs that allows users to post additional information.
	NPR: Housing First URL: http://www.npr.org/news/specials/housingfirst/ ODP description: In this yearlong special reporting project Housing First, NPR News explores the housing dilemmas of Americans with special needs -- and how lack of housing can stymy their efforts to join mainstream society. Page title: NPR : Housing First
	The Housing Corporation URL: http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/ ODP description: The government agency who fund and regulate Registered Social Landlords (including housing associations) in England. Page title: Home : Housing Corporation
	Self-Help Enterprises URL: http://www.selfhelpenterprises.org ODP description: Providing technical services and support, helping families and communities compete for financial resources and empowering people to be leaders. Includes current programs, how to join, FAQ and related links. Page title: Self-Help Enterprises - Building Houses, Building Homes, Building Communities Page description: Dedicated to self-help housing, sewer and water development, housing rehabilitation, multifamily housing and homebuyer programs in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
	Department of the Environment and Local Government URL: http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/ ODP description: Housing section of this Irish Government Department web site. Includes on-line leaflets on services of the Department. Page title: Housing - Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
	Australasian Housing Institute URL: http://www.housinginstitute.org/ ODP description: Professional body for individual practitioners in the broad social housing sector in Australasia - linking social housing workers in Australia and New Zealand. Details of membership benefits, events and publications. Page title: Welcome to the Australasian Housing Institute
	Room at RTPI URL: http://www.room.org.uk/ ODP description: Organizes seminars in the UK to discuss housing issues, such as how to create healthy communities, landlords, personal problems, and real estate markets. Page title: ROOM@RTPI - Sowing seeds - working with schools towards sustainability - 17th May 2007 : London
	Housing New Canadians Research Working Group URL: http://www.hnc.utoronto.ca ODP description: Research partnership focused on housing access and discrimination in the Toronto area. Research projects examine the housing search process used by immigrants and refugees, the quality and cost of the housing they obtain, the degree to which their housing needs are met, and the nature and extent of any housing-related discrimination. Page title: Housing New Canadians
	United Nations Centre for Human Settlements - Habitat (UNCHS) URL: http://www.unhabitat.org/ ODP description: Analyses and studies human settlement patterns, and develops methods for controlled settlement with the preservation of the environment in mind. Page title: UN-HABITAT.:. Home
	Housingnet URL: http://www.housingnet.co.uk ODP description: UK housing information resource, containing a social housing database, information and topical debate. Also includes an online maintenance manual. Page title: Housing Associations / RSLs data at housingnet.co.uk Page description: A UK Social Housing Directory concentrating on Housing Associations / RSLs & Local Government. The most comprehensive database of Housing Association contact information in any media.
	Council for Affordable and Rural Housing URL: http://www.carh.org/ ODP description: A national advocacy and educational association for individuals and businesses involved in the financing, development and management of affordable rural housing. Page title: CARH - Home Page description: Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system