1.   It discourages housing authorities from working to improve their operations.

2.   Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government.

3.   The federal government has graded the San Francisco housing authority at only four points above a failing grade, said Brown.

4.   Local housing authorities have been compelled by the housing crisis to make offers of sub-standard accommodation.

5.   A series of other strikes followed in Maputo, involving workers at the state housing authority, a textile factory, the health services and the bus company.

6.   The federal housing authorities had no powers of enforcement.

7.   Where the real issue is homelessness, a local authority social services department has the power to request the co-operation of any local housing authority.

8.   This applies to any local authority, local education authority, local housing authority and health authority.

9.   Defects in Scottish housing were already being tackled vigorously by local housing authorities, Scottish Homes, the new town development corporations and housing associations.