Many of them live in private accommodation, which can mean anything from squatting to owning property.
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All households, including private accommodation, will be offered an energy efficiency plan.
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Ten years later, in 1971, the position had reversed and social tenants outnumbered renters in private accommodation by 4.6 million to 3.2 million.
The watchdog also raised concerns about the decision to uprate local housing allowance - which covers private accommodation - by the CPI rate of inflation rather than pegging it to average rent rises in an area.
The charity asked about complaints received about private rented accommodation and enforcement action taken by councils against private landlords.
Changes to the "homelessness duty" will mean councils can offer people private sector accommodation instead of being obliged to offer social housing.
They will be able to stay there for two years after which they can apply to the council for housing, or move into private rented accommodation.
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For more than a decade after blacks began to arrive in Britain in large numbers, they were excluded from public housing and occasionally from private rented accommodation too.
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Finally, in some places, such as Sunderland, the availability of private rented accommodation for families has jumped as recently created universities have built flats and halls of residence for their students.
Mr Forbes claimed the changes would not make the predicted savings because "the logical economic choice for a tenant who's getting the bedroom tax imposed on them is to move to more expensive, smaller private sector accommodation".
If you prefer to spend your time on the water instead of in the trees, cruise companies like Dawn on the Water and Jungle Expeditions, offer private-cabin accommodation in old-fashioned riverboats.
Mr Paes wants to revamp the seedy port area by getting private developers to build accommodation there for the 20, 000 journalists who will cover the games.
The scheme incorporates student accommodation and private residential apartments which will provide the funding that will enable the new stadium to be built, plus a community centre, conference centre and education suite.
Mr Blackwood said the legislation would marginalise those on low incomes who will find it hard to get accommodation in the private rental sector.
Private prisons have held a higher percentage of their prisoners in overcrowded accommodation than public sector ones every year for the 13 years to 2010-11, it said.
Several states, including New York and California, have "public accommodation" laws that say no one can be excluded from private establishments that sell food to the public or show films, exhibitions or athletic teams -- or places whose operations affect commerce "among the several states" -- like clubs where business meetings over lunch might result in corporate mergers.
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Currently 780 homeless households are in temporary accommodation in Luton, where the council is believed to be England's biggest user of private landlords outside London.
Mr. Baker's holdings along with a handful of private villas, including a pair owned by Francesca von Habsburg currently represent Port Antonio's plushest accommodation.
While Crom Castle is a private home, in recent years the west-wing has been available to hire as a wedding venue and accommodation.
For the almost 2, 000 on the campus of Peking University, accommodation will be more than doubled, from 12 square meters to 25 square meters, with a private toilet, shower and kitchen.
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