Housing
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- Housing woes of urban poor in Bangladesh
- ( I Ahmed / Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand , 2007)
- Housing is a serious problem for the urban poor in Bangladesh. In the capital city of Dhaka alone nearly 30 per cent of the population live in informal settlements. Tenure insecurity is a dominant cha...
- Urban land for South Africa’s poor
- ( W. Smit / Southern African Regional Poverty Network , 2007)
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Why do poor South Africans have a hard time accessing urban land? This report analyses the perspectives and experiences of civil society organisations (CSOs) whose aims are to increase the poor&rsq...
- Addressing the needs of the Dhaka's urban poor
- ( World Bank Office, Dhaka , 2007)
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Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in the world, attracting an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 mostly poor migrants a year. This paper argues that urgent measures are required to address the vital...
- Private partnerships for socially and environmentally sustainable urban development
- ( United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2007)
- 2007 marks the beginning of a new urban era - for the first time, half of humanity will be living in towns and cities. This report provides an overview of the challenges, business opportunities and be...
- Will financing the urban poor supply them with shelter and basic services?
- ( R. Rollnick / United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2007)
- In Africa, Asia and Latin America the demand for shelter and basic services far outstrips supply, particularly in urban slums. This issue of Habitat Debate examines whether increasing access to financ...
- How pro-poor is Maharashtra's draft housing policy?
- ( M. Patkar; S. Singh / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2007)
- This brief article examines the draft housing policy of Maharashtra in India. The draft acknowledges that shelter is a basic human need and that it implies not only construction of bricks and mortar b...
- The effectiveness community-driven urban initiatives
- ( C. D’Cruz; D. Satterthwaite / Human Settlements Programme , 2006)
- This paper discusses the current and potential role of community-driven initiatives to significantly improve the lives of slum dwellers and squatters at local, city and national levels. It focuses mai...
- Perceptions of housing amongst the ultra poor in Bangladesh
- ( K.H. Kabir; F.H. Mallick / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee , 2005)
- The ultra poor communities in Bangladesh seemingly live in the most basic form of shelter. A closer look however, reveals that the building practices of these people address sustainability, affordabil...
- Customary land delivery practices in African urban areas
- ( Michael Mattingly;Alain Durand-Lasserve / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2004)
- Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow featu...
- Improving public rental housing in Latin America
- ( N.V. Siegert / , 2004)
- The term “Public Rental Housing” (PRH) refers to housing owned by the State, which usually rents it at subsidized prices and looks after its maintenance and administration. While constituting an affor...
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