Q.Distinguish between a tenant-ownership housing society and a tenant-co-partnership housing society.

Housing co-operative societies are classified by how the land and houses are owned and how the society helps the member into four main types. In a tenant-ownership society the society holds (or leases) the land and allots a plot to each member, who then builds and owns his own house. In a tenant-co-partnership society — the commonest type in cities — the society owns both the land and the buildings and allots flats to members, who are 'tenant-owners' holding shares while ownership stays with the society. A house-mortgage society does not build at all but advances long …