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An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair.

Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent.

In Scotland it is called a block of flats or, if it's a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere.

Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

Public housing may be a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing.

Social housing can also be seen as a potential remedy to housing inequality.

Some social housing organizations construct for purchase, particularly in Spain and to an extent elsewhere.

Poverty is general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.

It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements.

Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the lack of means necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.

Absolute poverty is meant to be about the same independent of location.

Relative poverty occurs when people in a country do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as compared to the rest of the population and so would vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country.

Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, often called Section 8, as repeatedly amended, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of approximately 4.8 million low-income households, as of 2008, in the United States.

The largest part of the section is the Housing Choice Voucher program which pays a large portion of the rents and utilities of about 2.1 million households.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development manages Section 8 programs.