0 a group of people who join together so that they can build or buy houses or apartments at low cost
1 in the UK, an organization that provides houses or apartments for people to rent at low cost:
A final implicit element of the partnership contract was the authority's recognition that the housing association was constrained by its need to compete for funds.
Both the home care and the residential care were delivered by the same notfor-profit (housing association) provider.
The study also finds some housing association staff poorly trained in domestic violence and in operating policies to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving.
The 'right to buy' legislation allowed tenants in rented local authority and housing association property to purchase the freehold at heavily discounted prices.
From a housing association perspective the most obvious example of this is the traditional block of sheltered flats with a warden.
In both cases, the land was provided by a housing association partner.
Some of our group expressed deep reservations about the planned introduction of private finance for housing association development programmes.
Some older tenants therefore make a positive choice to be in private renting since their behaviour would not be acceptable in council or housing association housing.
