F. whereas social housing policy is an integral part of services of general economic interest by helping to meet housing needs, facilitate access to property, promote the quality of living space, improve existing living space and adapt housing expenditure to the family situation and resources of the occupiers, while leaving scope for effort on their part;

loans secured, to the satisfaction of the competent authorities, by mortgages on residential property or by shares in Finnish residential housing companies, operating in accordance with the Finnish Housing Company Act of 1991 or subsequent equivalent legislation and leasing transactions under which the lessor retains full ownership of the residential property leased for as long as the lessee has not exercised his option to purchase, in all cases up to 50% of the value of the residential property concerned;

Milliken: What are the municipal addresses of all properties in the federal riding of Kingston and the Islands that are not single family residences in respect of which CMHC is owner or mortgagee and for each property: (a) how many living units are at each address; (b) what terms with respect to use, disposition or consent to transfer, if any, are contained in the deed or mortgage by virtue of which CMHC holds title; (c) is the property or part thereof classed as ``social housing'' for the purpose of the 1996 budget announcement that administration of such housing would be transferred to the provinces; and (d) what is the total subsid ...[+++]y paid by CMHC in Kingston and the Islands with respect to all properties?

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), the following question was made an Order of the House for Return: Q–36 — Mr. Milliken (Kingston and the Islands) — What are the municipal addresses of all properties in the federal riding of Kingston and the Islands that are not single family residences in respect of which CMHC is owner or mortgagee and for each property (a) how many living units are at each address; (b) what terms with respect to use, disposition or consent to transfer, if any, are contained in the deed or mortgage by virtue of which CMHC holds title; (c) is the property or part thereof classed as " social housing" for the purpose of ...[+++] the 1996 budget announcement that administration of such housing would be transferred to the provinces; and (d) what is the total subsidy paid by CMHC in Kingston and the Islands with respect to all properties?

There was a small public housing program under which capital costs and operating costs were shared on a 75/25 federal-provincial basis, and a small limited dividend program creating privately owned housing units to rent at slightly less than market rates.

Although no statistics are available on the number of privately owned homes, it is estimated that there are approximately 10,000.