[slides attached] Discussion on Housing, Slum Upgrading and ...

Co-hosted by the Affordable Housing KSB and the Women in Urban Development KSB Discussion on Housing, Slum Upgrading and Involuntary Resettlement Policies in Brazil over the Past Decade With Ines Maga...

[slides attached] The 7th Global Housing Finance Conference

Please see attachment for slides for Session 1-8. Sri Mulyani gave welcoming remarks Jan Mischke presented at Session 1. Goal 2030 - Adequate, Safe and Affordable Housing Christian Agossa spoke at Ses...

[slides attached] No Decent Housing, No Water and Sanitation...

No Decent Housing, No Water and Sanitation; No Water and Sanitation, No Decent Housing: Reflections on this Nexus from South Africa and Peru   Monday, June 6 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm | World Bank MC 6-100 L...

Innovations and lessons learned from the Community Mortgage ...

Pre-conference Session of 7th Global Housing Finance Confere...

    Stocktaking of the Housing Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : Challenges and Opportunities

7th Global Housing Finance Conference

    The World Bank Group will hold its 7th Global Housing Finance Conference on May 25-26, 2016. Jointly hosted biannually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the underl...

Financing housing consoldation in in-situ informal settlemen...

The structure of this report is as follows: Chapter 2: Shelter Consolidation and the National Human Settlements Context locates the practise of upgrading informal settlements in general, and the Upgra...

Republic of Ecuador Land and Housing Market: Increasing the ...

The paper offers a range of policy recommendations for consideration. While these are elaborated in the text, they include the following: Rental housing vouchers Grants for down payment assistance Eff...

Inclusive Housing Finance Program in Egypt

     The proposed Inclusive Housing Finance Program (the “Program”) will assist the Government of Egypt to improve the performance of the housing sector, especially increasing access to affordable hou...

Housing Consumption and Urbanization

     Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa places immense pressure on urban services to meet the needs of the burgeoning urban population. Although several country- or city-level reports offer insi...

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...

Lessons from Urban South Africa on the Importance of Coordin...

     Informal settlements are a permanent feature of South Africa’s cities. Estimates from the General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa show that more than 26 percent of all households in t...