In early 2006,the Tibet Autonomous Region(TAR) launched a housing project through an integration of financial and social resources,community cooperation and support from outside provinces to either renovate farmers’ houses,build new houses to settle nomad herdsmen,or transfer dwellings as poverty relief.All these efforts aimed to make it possible for 80 percent of farmers and herdsmen in the region to have comfortable houses within five years. In early 2006, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) launched a housing project through an integration of financial and social resources, community cooperation and support from outside provinces to either renovate farmers’ houses, build new houses to settle nomad herdsmen, or transfer dwellings as poverty relief.All these efforts aimed to make it possible for 80 percent of farmers and herdsmen in the region to have comfortable houses within five years.