The media is fond of stories about the "iceberg homes" of tycoons and oligarchs: already enormous houses under which three– and four storey basements have been dug to house swimming pools and car collections.
During the house confinement under which she was held for most of the 21 months of the trial, she consoled herself by cooking food for her husband and playing patience.
THE lawyer and rights-activist Chen Guangcheng has apparently escaped from the extra-legal house arrest under which he has been held since September 2010, effectively imprisoning him in his hometown in rural Shandong province.
Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, is charged with violating the terms of the house arrest under which she has been held for 14 of the past 19 years.
BANGKOK — After a series of delays, a verdict is expected Tuesday in the case of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader who faces up to five years in prison on a charge of violating the terms of her house arrest, under which she has been held for 14 of the past 20 years.
There is also a housing scheme under which 350 three-bedroom family homes have been built from materials provided by the regional government (the houses remain communal property, and cost occupants €15 a month).
The domestic unit was traditionally the rumah gadang ("big house"; community house), which was under the control of a head woman, her sisters, their daughters, and their female children.
In September, after protests from across the housing industry, the Department for Communities and Local Government agreed a deal with housing associations under which they would not be forced to sell homes to tenants in all circumstances.
This evolution has informed laws at the state level that echo Title VII, like California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, under which both Pao and Weeks sued.
Senator Jake Garn, Republican of Utah, has introduced an amendment to the Housing Act under which no UDAG's would be authorized before July 25 unless a new distribution formula was approved by Congress.
