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aide à la pierre, aide à la personne

English translation: brick and motar subsidies/residential construction subsidy, housing benefit/personal subsidies


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French term or phrase:aide à la pierre, aide à la personne
English translation:brick and motar subsidies/residential construction subsidy, housing benefit/personal subsidies
Entered by: Rahdne Zola
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04:13 May 18, 2009
French to English translations [PRO]
Real Estate / home loans/aid
French term or phrase: aide à la pierre, aide à la personne
Dans un text qui s'agit du logement, on trouve la phrase suivante:

...l’évolution de l’intervention publique de l’aide à la pierre à l’aide à la personne...

Bien que je comprenne la différence entre les deux idées, je ne sais pas exactement comment les rendre en anglais. Merci à l'avance pour votre AIDE. ;-)
Rahdne Zola
United States
Local time: 14:58
brick and motar subsidies/residential construction subsidy, housing benefit/personal subsidies
Explanation:
aide à la personne [logement] - housing benefit
http://www2.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/cdu/accueil/glossai...
Les mots de la ville
Un glossaire français-anglais de l'urbanisme, de l'aménagement et de la gestion urbaine
aide à la pierre [logement] - residential construction subsidy, brick and mortar subsidy

http://osc.sciences-po.fr/equipe/Glasgow_BugejaChauvel.pdf.
brick and motar subsidies (“aide à la pierre”) to personal subsidies (“aide à la personne”)
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mohanv
India
Local time: 00:28
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Thank you for your quick response and for taking a stab at rendering these into English.
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4 +2context-dependentxxxBourth
3 +1brick and motar subsidies/residential construction subsidy, housing benefit/personal subsidies
mohanv


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brick and motar subsidies/residential construction subsidy, housing benefit/personal subsidies


Explanation:
aide à la personne [logement] - housing benefit
http://www2.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/cdu/accueil/glossai...
Les mots de la ville
Un glossaire français-anglais de l'urbanisme, de l'aménagement et de la gestion urbaine
aide à la pierre [logement] - residential construction subsidy, brick and mortar subsidy

http://osc.sciences-po.fr/equipe/Glasgow_BugejaChauvel.pdf.
brick and motar subsidies (“aide à la pierre”) to personal subsidies (“aide à la personne”)


mohanv
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Local time: 00:28
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Grading comment
Thank you for your quick response and for taking a stab at rendering these into English.

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agree  ambonnardot
1 day7 hrs
  -> thanks
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
context-dependent


Explanation:
I feel how you translate these will depend how important it is that the reader understand the difference between the two. You may be able to simply say "housing subsidies", or you may have to leave the French and give explanatory notes, or anything in between ...

Definition :
L'aide à la pierre, c'est l'ensemble des aides accordées par l'Etat et qui sont destinées à favoriser l'investissement immobilier sous forme de prêts aidés ou de primes. Les bénéficiaires sont les maîtres d'ouvrages qui s'engagent à construire des logements aidés. Le prêt à taux zéro % entre dans la catégorie des aides à la pierre. Pour en bénéficier, les conditions de ressources et la situation familiale sont prises en compte.
http://www.pap.fr/_aide-pierre.htm

aide à la personne [logement] HOUSING BENEFIT [approx. voir définition]

aide à la pierre [logement] RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION SUBSIDY, BRICK AND MORTAR SUBSIDY [approx. voir définition]

AIDE A LA PERSONNE
Aide financière accordée AUX MENAGES LOCATAIRES OU ACCEDANTS A LA PROPRIETE, liée aux caractéristiques et au coût du logement, aux charges de famille et aux ressources du ménage.
Housing benefit given to tenants or home buyers and related to the characteristics and price of the dwelling, the number of dependants and household income
AIDE A LA PIERRE
Aide financière à la CONSTRUCTION DE LOGEMENTS DESTINES A LA LOCATION OU A L'ACCESSION à la propriété, visant à réduire le niveau du loyer ou des annuités d'emprunt.
Financial aid for houses built for rent or for purchase, with a view to reducing the level of rent or the loan repayments
www2.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/cdu/accueil/glossaires/motsdelaville/anglais/a.htm



Given the urgency of the situation, early housing policy was characterized primarily as aide à la pierre, or ‘BRICK-AND-MORTAR’ INTERVENTIONS. In an attempt to jump-start the housing industry, the State invested heavily in construction, as well as created financial and procedural incentives to induce new housing starts.
www.housingfinance.org/pdfstorage/Europe_frenchhousingpolic...

While the social housing agency benefits from "CONSTRUCTION AID" (aide à la pierre), ... EUR 3048.98 in 2000), over and above the ordinary ANAH subsidy, ...
www.anst.uu.se/jiche227/Interntional Housing Finance/French...
[though this makes it sound like something for 3rd-world countries ... ]

How about this one :
However, after the oil shock, these “AID FOR STONES (aide à la pierre)” such as ...
www.mlit.go.jp/kokudokeikaku/international/sp/en/general/pd...

Since the late 1960's, neoliberal policies, by partially substituting personal aid ("aide à la personne") to BUILDING SUBSIDIES ("aide à la pierre"), have encouraged the building of individual houses owned by their occupiers rather than the renting of flats in high-density housing complexes as was the case earlier.
econsoc.mpifg.de/archive/esoct00.pdf


xxxBourth
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: Definitive!
1 hr

agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Which explains my "discussion" entry. Word for word can be given but, as we know, is neither use nor ornament without context! The basic take is of course the accent on housing and other benefits...
2 hrs
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