A flagship housing scheme which allows tenants to buy their council house at a discount is eroding Britain's stock of affordable housing – with only one home being built for every four sold off.
The plan, which the Conservative party hopes will improve its popularity among working-class voters ahead of the election, could see the flagship housing policy expanded to include all tenants of housing association homes.
The government's flagship housing incentives, FirstBuy and NewBuy, help prospective buyers by reducing the deposit needed to buy a home, but are only eligible for the purchase of new properties.
Projected to open in 2013, the Via del Corso's Benetton flagship, housed in the 17th-century Unione Militare building, has been shelled out to make room for the Fuksas studio's La Lanterna, a larger-than-life lantern made of glass and metal designed to snake through the palazzo's four levels and rooftop.
A few months later, while construction was still being carried out on a new flagship housing project, Brighton Housing Trust suggested he move in and try it out.
To celebrate the reopening tomorrow of Christian Dior's sprawling 57th Street flagship, the house's creative director of accessories, Camille Miceli, designed a clutch of one-of-a-kind jewels, including this $3,500 metal and crackled ceramic necklace.
Mr. Clancy told the senators that violence inside the facilities was not an issue, saying though 28,000 inmates had passed through Talbot Hall, the company's flagship halfway house, there had been only four fights there since it opened in 1998.
2. Caitlyn won't walk, but Givenchy will be awesome anyway Givenchy has staged its catwalk shows in Paris since 1952; this season, to celebrate the opening of a Madison Avenue flagship, the house is swapping the city of lights for NYC.
That the Sheikh chose to leave the colt with Jim Bolger in Ireland, rather than transfer him to the flagship in-house stable, must be a matter of some relief.
Almost three-quarters of the families removed from their homes over the past six years have been rehoused under the federal government's flagship social housing programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV).
