This article is originally posted here.   Key Messages Housing plays a key socio-economic role and represents the main wealth of the poor in most developing countries 3 billion people

June 2016 IEG LIVE: Bridging the Gap: How to Finance Universal Access to Housing by 2030   Lack of safe and affordable housing is a major development challenge - impacting

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

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 Upgrading

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 Efforts

     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 housing to

     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 insight into

     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

     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

     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