- Provision of social protection in the form of benefits in kind to help households meet the cost of housing (recipients of these benefits are means-tested);

- administration, operation or support of such social protection schemes;

- benefits in kind, such as payments made on a temporary or long-term basis to help tenants with rent costs, payments to alleviate the current housing costs of owner-occupiers (that is to help with paying mortgages or interest), provision of low-cost or social housing.