The main purpose of housing associations is to provide affordable housing.
"This reported pattern suggests that the Homan Square facility exists primarily for the purpose of housing off-the-books detentions and interrogations without the knowledge of or access to counsel," Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin wrote to Lynch.
Edinburgh's National Portrait Gallery — designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and the first museum to be built for the specific purpose of housing a portrait collection — opened its doors in July 1889, but the grand neo-Gothic building of red sandstone was too large for the existing artworks.
The Smithsonian Institution Building, commonly referred to as the Castle, is located on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century for the purpose of housing all museum and scientific functions for the newly formed institution.
If a building can serve the basic purpose of housing someone, SFBARF is all for it.
The NBMAA opened in its current location when a philanthropist left a stone mansion for the purpose of housing the institution in 1937.
Among the first orders made by the new county government was a survey of 40 acre of wilderness located to the north of Boggs' cabin, parts of which had been donated for the purpose of housing the seat of government.
To take an example, Zerofootprint studied a university campus and found a student residence within a stone's throw of others - buildings all used for the same purpose of housing students - that was using five times more electricity per student.
Thanks to repeated defense authorization and omnibus appropriations bills that forbid any federal dollars from being spent on transferring Gitmo prisoners to U.S. soil, closing the facility, or even modifying U.S. prisons for the purpose of housing detainees in the future, the administration is left with a seemingly endless problem.
Although the primary purpose of housing is to provide a safe haven for normal living, there is an increasing recognition of the hazards that may exist in the indoor environment.
