Much more than shelter, housing symbolizes social status, a sense of `` belonging '', acceptance within a given group or neighborhood, identification with particular cultural values and social institutions, feelings of pride and worth, aspirations and hopes basic to human well-being.

In the states that have passed laws preventing discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, support by real estate associations for compliance and broadened coverage through additional legislation could help remove the label of `` social reformism '' that most realtors individually seem determined to avoid.

The creation of architect Wallace K. Harrison, the proposal called for a ' comprehensive community ' consisting of housing, social infrastructure and light industry.

Most of these Victorian terraces still exist and, along with more modern social housing, characterise the area today.

Under the slogan " Revolution in Liberty ", the Frei administration embarked on far-reaching social and economic programs, particularly in education, housing, and a agrarian reform, including rural unionization of agricultural workers.

From the late 1920s he was concerned with social housing, inexpensive production methods, new materials, prefabrication and standardisation.

In the 1920s and 1930s, however, all his commissions came from private individuals, and it was not until the 1950s that he was able to put his progressive ideas about social housing into practice, in projects in Utrecht and Reeuwijk.

The main social indicators such as poor health, bad housing, and long-term mass unemployment, pointed to terminal social and economic stagnation at best, or even a downward spiral.

Some Western cultures have often given priority to civil and political rights, sometimes at the expense of economic and social rights such as the right to work, to education, health and housing.

Among several others, they highlight the fact that maintaining a judicial system, a fundamental requirement of the civil right to due process before the law and other rights relating to judicial process, is positive, resource-intensive, progressive and vague, while the social right to housing is precise, justiciable and can be a real ' legal ' right.

Scrutiny panels of backbench members of the assembly have been established to examine ( i ) economic affairs, ( ii ) environment, ( iii ) corporate services, ( iv ) education and home affairs and ( v ) health, social security and housing.

Unusually for the era, he provided social services for his workers, including subsidized housing and health and retirement benefits.

Despite their planned integration into the Kosovar society and their recognition in the Kosovar constitution, Romani and other minorities ( i. e. Ashkali and Egyptian communities ) continue to face many difficulties, such as segregation and discrimination, in housing, education, health, employment and social welfare.

Major social housing is also being constructed to house those who reside in slums, which dominate the landscape of Luanda.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

In declining urban areas ( like Kingston Road in Scarborough, Ontario ), the remaining low-end motels from the two-lane highway era are often seen as seedy places for the homeless, prostitution and drugs as vacant rooms in now-bypassed areas are often rented by social-service agencies to house refugees, abuse victims and families awaiting social housing.

It is empowered to review drafts of economic and social legislation prepared by service ministries, such as communications and housing, and to provide recommendations.

As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce ; communications ; culture ; defence ; defence production ; education ; environment ; finance and economic affairs ; food and agriculture ; foreign affairs ; health ; housing ; information and broadcasting ; interior ; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas ; law and justice ; local government ; minority affairs ; narcotics control ; parliamentary affairs ; petroleum and natural resources production ; planning and development ; railways ; religious affairs ; science and technology ; social welfare ; special education ; sports ; state and frontier regions ; tourism ; water and power ; women's development ; and youth affairs.

In contrast to his predecessor's policies, Khalifa ibn Hamad cut family allowances and increased spending on social programs, including housing, health, education, and pensions.

According to Rajiv Sethi, an economist at Columbia University, black-white segregation in housing is slowly declining for most metropolitan areas in the US Racial segregation or separation can lead to social, economic and political tensions.

* Riverside-A social housing povider in the UK

In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer William Beveridge, who had identified five " Giant Evils " afflicting the working class of the pre-war period: " want " ( poverty ), disease, " ignorance " ( lack of access to education ), " squalor " ( poor housing ), and " idleness " ( unemployment ).

Other factors that play an important role include social isolation and immigration related to social adversity, racial discrimination, family dysfunction, unemployment, and poor housing conditions.

It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Rather it is rooted in a difference of response to the threat of social disintegration.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

And the anxiety it generates is misinterpreted as anxiety over private interest and threatened social status.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.