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Housing Matters, by Independent Researcher Sonia Hammam
Housing matters to the livability of cities and to the productivity of their economies. The failure of cities to accommodate the housing needs of growing urban populations can be seen in the prol...
Improving Access to Urban Land for All Residents: Fulfilling...
As the world is urbanizing, many cities are grappling with a population that is growing rapidly, thereby increasing demand for land and housing. This pressure on land and housing markets often is...
Gender Equality and Development - Expanding women’s access t...
Poor urban women give high priority to affordable access to well-located serviced plots and houses. Women’s locational preferences, motives for investing in housing and priorities for services ma...
Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor
Abstract Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods t...
The Case for Incremental Housing
The issues Informal settlements accommodate more than 50 percent of the population of many cities. They are characterised by flexible, responsive, and affordable housing processes that enable famili...