Văn Hóa Anh - chương Housing

1. Chapte r 1 9 :
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2. Chapter 19: Housing
1. Houses, not flat
2. Private property and public property
3. The importance of “home”
4. Individuality and conformity
5. Interiors: The importance of cosiness
6. Owning and renting
7. Homelessness

3. Houses, not flats1

4. Most people in Britain want to live in a detached
house such as “stately home”, cottage . . . because it
ensures privacy and is a status symbol.

5. Only when they
cannot afford to
live anywhere
else, they will
live in flats.
People really
hate living in
flats because
they don’t suit
British attitudes.

6. Private property
and public property
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7. While a detached
house can be
clear between
private property
and the public
domain, flats may
not have. That is
the reason why
almost everyone
in Britain don’t
want to live in
flats.

8. The importance of “home”
With British people, house is an object. They will
sell their house with reasonable price and move to
other house. The houses themselves are just
investments so they leads to a strange approach
towards house prices.
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9. Individuality and conformity
Flats don’t give enough
privacy and scope for
the expression of
individuality. However,
not everything about
housing in Britain can
show individuality.
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10. Most houses are built
by organizations, not
individuals so people
can get similar to any
house on the estate.
That is the reason why
everybody wants to
build an extension to
their house or even
garden shed to make
different with other
single house.

11. Interiors: The importance of
cosiness
First, British people like cosy atmosphere in
their houses. They don’t focus on background
of house because they usually use cheap
items, mass-produced furniture and so on.
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12. Next, tradition is part of
cosiness such as the
open fire. In the past,
people use it to keep
warm so it is the perfect
traditional symbol of
warmth.

13. Moreover, most older houses have two general living
rooms: the front room for formal visits, the back room
for family members and close friends. However, most
modern smaller ones have only one living room with
two doors: the front door and the back door. The back
door is for family and close friends only.

14. - About 70% of all the houses in Britain are
occupied by their owners and almost all of these
were bought with a mortgage.
- Mortgages are available from building
societies, banks and other financial institutions
6 Owning and renting

15. - The proportion of ‘owner-occupiers’ tend to increase
more than ‘council tenants’ and ‘ tenants from private
landlords’ in numbers
- Housing associations, which are non-profit making, are
now the main providers of additional low-cost housing for
rent and for sale to those on low incomes and in the
greatest housing need. The housing association sector is
expanding rapidly and providing homes for well over a
million people.

16. Homelessness
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17. In 1993, there were half a million homeless people in Britain.
In the early 1990s, when the country was going through an
economic boom and housing prices was rising, people buy
their houses. At that time, a lot of people lost their jobs and
can’t afford the monthly mortgage payments. This fact made
them be in debt as well as homeless.

18. Charitable organizations and local council provide
place to live for most homeless families and single
people. Thousands of single people simply live on the
streets, where they 'sleep rough'.

19. Solving the problem of
homelessness is not a
political priority for the
British government, because
there are a lot of reasons.
The homeless are those with
personal problems which
make it difficult for them to
settle down in many cases
or they are people who
simply don 't want to 'settle
down' and who wouldn't
class themselves as
homeless.

20. Thanks for your
attention