He regarded a voluntary agreement as a way to avoid the statutory imposition of right to buy on housing associations, which would have "compromised our independence" and "destroyed" housing associations' homebuilding ambitions.
There remains devastation: only one of the 7,000 totally destroyed housing units for which the UN refugee agency UNRWA is responsible has been rebuilt, there are daily power cuts, a dire shortage of clean water, the unemployment rate is the highest in the world, and Gaza's 1.8 million population remains effectively imprisoned in the enclave.
In recent weeks, for example, a 2,600-acre 2,600-acresa Verde National Park in Colorado destroyed housing firethe park's staff, ins sewage treatMesa plant and the roof of a million-gallon water tank, and threatened the park headquarters.
If people became homeless in a post-disaster situation, it implies that the disaster destroyed housing and infrastructure, which affects the economy; thus, the number of people becoming homeless is considered as an indicator for housing damage in the model.
Monetary losses totaled J$274.3 million (US$3.2 million), of which an estimated J$75.6 million (US$890,000) was required to replace destroyed housing units.
Official figures on wartime damage published in Croatia in 1996 specify 180,000 destroyed housing units, 25% of the Croatian economy destroyed, and US$27 billion of material damage.
