The United States is paying $12 million to refurbish part of an old Soviet-built prison outside Kabul to house transferred detainees; the work is to be completed by December.
Finally, the expansion incorporates a truly fabulous recent acquisition: a two-story, furnished merchant's house, transferred intact from China and complete in every detail, from finely carved lattice shutters on courtyard windows, to yellowed Mao posters tacked to the walls, to porcelain urinals beside the beds.
It didn't happen in Glasgow when the largest state-driven housing transfer project began to fall apart, so it's implausible now.
They were constantly writing to the police asking for details of incidents of violence or anti-social behaviour and then asking police to support requests made by the tenants affected for a housing transfer.
SBHA launched its action following the housing transfer in 2003.
For instance, the housing transfer in a community is self-protective, decreasing the crimes that target immigrants and nonimmigrants (Martinez and Lee 2000).
Our national social housing stock is now largely out of democratic control: it's not just the large sums of development funding to housing associations that has led to this, but also the indirect result of Labour's decent homes standard, which saw housing transferred out of council control in order to fund the renovation work necessary.
The plans would also see small groups of properties sold to private landlords and some houses transferred to social housing provider The Riverside Group, which will renovate them and sell them on for 25% less than market value.
Added to this, as Legrain says, rising house prices "transfer wealth from poorer young people to richer older ones.
Once in place, hydraulic jacks lift and level the house and transfer its weight to the new supports.
