mainland Australia, mostly in arid and semi-arid regions and the tropical savannahs. There are three types of leasehold tenure in Australia: Term lease – usually 1–50 years, for a specified purpose. Perpetual lease, or lease in perpetuity – may be used only for a specified purpose. Freeholding lease – after approval is granted to convert a lease to freehold, and the lessee pays the purchase price in instalments. This is an interim tenure; freehold title is not issued until the all purchase costs have been paid. All land in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is leasehold, issued with 99-year leases. The rent on the leases was abolished by the Gorton Government in 1970, with the leasehold system now "almost identical in operation" to the freehold tenure typical of residential properties in other Australian jurisdictions. Residential tenancies Residential tenancies differ from state to state, governed by local legislation. United Kingdom Modern leasehold estates in England and Wales (Scotland has different laws and in Scots Law it has been forbidden by statute since 1974 to create a lease of a dwelling lasting longer than 20 years, or to grant any other lease of over 175 years) can take one of four forms—the fixed-term tenancy or tenancy for years, the periodic tenancy, the tenancy at will, and the tenancy at sufferance. Forms no longer used include socage and burgage. When a landowner allows one or more persons, called "tenants", to use the land in some way for some fixed period of time, the land becomes a leasehold, and the resident- (or worker-) landowner relation is called a "tenancy". A tenant pays rent (a form of consideration) to the landowner. The leasehold can include buildings and other improvements to the land. The tenant can do one or more of: farm the leasehold, live on it, or practise a trade on it. Typically, leasehold estates are held by tenants for a specific period of time. In England in recent years, some new homes and apartments have been sold by large housebuilders with a leasehold where the ground rent payable doubles every 10 to 25 years, with consequently a very high price to buy out the lease. This has caused some recently built homes to be extremely difficult to sell. In 2017, the British government launched a consultation on legal reforms to end such exploitative schemes. United States In the US, there are food co-ops that