National housing policy is set for change with the reformist Koizumi Cabinet having launched a political battle to abolish or privatize all unprofitable semigovernmental corporations.
Two housing-related public corporations that suck up hundreds of billions of yen every year from the national coffers are on the hit list: the Government Housing Loan Corp. and Urban Development Corp.
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