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Finance for incremental housing: current status and prospects for expansion
Bruce Ferguson,Peer Smets +1 more
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The authors examines informal and formal finance for incremental housing and makes recommendations for the vast expansion necessary to meet the affordable housing demand from the huge urban wave in developing countries projected over the next three decades.About:
This article is published in Habitat International.The article was published on 2010-07-01. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Affordable housing & Loan.read more
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Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied residential (housing) and commercial real estate (offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand how the built envi...
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Stakeholder participation and incremental housing in subsidized housing projects in Colombia and South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative examination of two subsidized housing projects in Colombia and South Africa shows how the challenges related with the size and quality of the units can be efficiently faced adopting an approach based on incremental growth of housing units.
Building regulation for resilience : managing risks for safer cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the production of safe and resilient cities, communities, and homes in low, and middle-income countries, with a doubling of their building stocks in the next 15-20 years.
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Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the public policies, programs and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage.
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Financing low income housing in Nigeria
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 300 households in selected areas (low-income/informal) of Jos Metropolis, Nigeria, was carried out, concerning the methods of housing finance used for building and home improvement.
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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The poor and their money
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Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty
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