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These projects are among the very few definitive success stories in the history of the US public housing effort. Financial assistance is provided for homeowners through the mortgage interest tax deduction and for lower income households through housing subsidy programs. Older, blighted buildings are torn down or renovated to create new structures that architecturally match the neighborhood. Affordable housing is a controversial reality of contemporary life, for gains in affordability often result low income homes from expanding land available for housing or increasing the density of housing units in a given area.

The number of homes under their ownership grew significantly from the 1980s as successive governments sought to make them the principal form of social housing, in preference to local authorities. The right to build cost does not include the cost of the land or the cost of constructing the house.

Since 1986, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program has been the primary federal program to produce affordable units; however, the housing produced in this program is less affordable than the former HUD programs. In 1973, the Government of Hong Kong announced a ten-year plan for the public provision of housing, to provide everyone in Hong Kong with permanent, self-contained housing with a target of housing.

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