Blog Peruvian study finds “going back to basics” on sustainable housing solutions can be key: They are simple, and reduce household costs April 30, 2024 0 In honor of Earth Day, this month we travel to Lima, Peru, to examine how Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS) adopts sustainable home improvement sol... Read More > Building Affordability into Tomorrow's Megacities July 28, 2023 0 New cities are being designed from the ground up. As we design the megacities of tomorrow, let's leverage lessons learned from previous experience to ensure that affordable ho... Read More > Delhi’s Master Plan and the voice of civil society – A missed opportunity May 16, 2023 0 Delhi is no stranger to urbanization and expansion. Informal settlements have sprung seamlessly across this mega city. According to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (... Read More > Circular Design Principles in the Built Environment April 20, 2023 0 With the built environment producing 40% of global carbon emissions (11% from building materials and 29% from the building’s operations), the call to transition from linear to... Read More > Unlocking Housing Finance for Women: Perspectives from IFC and Sewa Grih Rin Ltd. (Sitara) March 13, 2023 0 Access to safe and affordable housing is a fundamental human right. But unfortunately, it is not enjoyed equally by all members of society. Women in particular face significan... Read More > Recognition for demand-side finance paves the way for change February 16, 2023 0 We know that housing has a larger-than-expected contribution to developing country GDP when both housing investment (construction of new housing) and housing services (rents, ... Read More > Housing Lifts Economic Development (and Not the Other Way Around!) January 3, 2023 0 In early September, USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate, in partnership with the Way Forward Housing Coalition, put on an in-person Washington, DC conference “Housing’s Contrib... Read More > Waking a Sleeping Giant: Reflections from ADB’s 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference December 6, 2022 0 Manoj Sharma, ADB’s Chief of Urban Sector Group, SDGs and Climate Change Development, exclaimed that the ADB’s 1st Asia Pacific Housing Conference (AHC 2022) has “woken a ... Read More > A failure to disrupt the housing sector is a failure to our economy, health and planet. October 18, 2022 0 The global housing sector is fragmented, slow to innovate, underfunded and often isolated from the rest development community. Yet, the sector’s status quo can no longer be to... Read More > How Colombia Reaps the Benefits of Affordable Housing September 24, 2022 0 The global economy is in a state of disorder, the adverse effects of climate change have become palpable, and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a clear linkage between poor h... Read More > Housing’s Contribution to Economic Development: Reframing the Narrative September 2, 2022 0 On September 7-8, 2022, in Bethesda MD: The Way Forward Housing Coalition organized a conference to review the economic and social benefits of well-functioning housing markets... Read More > Comparing housing affordability in different African countries using purchasing power parity dollars January 2, 2022 0 A market price reflects the interplay between demand for the product concerned and its supply. The housing market is no different. Changes in the price of accommodation in a p... Read More > Housing finance in Africa: Recovery through recognition of massive small potential December 2, 2021 0 This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay to the 2021 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. After a difficult year, African housing markets are s... Read More > Can new technology solve the global housing crisis? June 2, 2021 0 From 3D printing to biomanufactured materials, new building technologies have been making the headlines as a quicker—and cheaper—way to address the global housing deficit, whi... Read More > Achieving an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery Through Safe Housing: Why it’s Time for Financial Institutions to Step Up March 2, 2021 0 Mrs. Vee is a micro-entrepreneur who makes her living collecting trash in Hanoi. Since the pandemic began, a large part of the waste she collects has been used personal protec... Read More >
Peruvian study finds “going back to basics” on sustainable housing solutions can be key: They are simple, and reduce household costs April 30, 2024 0 In honor of Earth Day, this month we travel to Lima, Peru, to examine how Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS) adopts sustainable home improvement sol... Read More > Building Affordability into Tomorrow's Megacities July 28, 2023 0 New cities are being designed from the ground up. As we design the megacities of tomorrow, let's leverage lessons learned from previous experience to ensure that affordable ho... Read More > Delhi’s Master Plan and the voice of civil society – A missed opportunity May 16, 2023 0 Delhi is no stranger to urbanization and expansion. Informal settlements have sprung seamlessly across this mega city. According to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (... Read More > Circular Design Principles in the Built Environment April 20, 2023 0 With the built environment producing 40% of global carbon emissions (11% from building materials and 29% from the building’s operations), the call to transition from linear to... Read More > Unlocking Housing Finance for Women: Perspectives from IFC and Sewa Grih Rin Ltd. (Sitara) March 13, 2023 0 Access to safe and affordable housing is a fundamental human right. But unfortunately, it is not enjoyed equally by all members of society. Women in particular face significan... Read More > Recognition for demand-side finance paves the way for change February 16, 2023 0 We know that housing has a larger-than-expected contribution to developing country GDP when both housing investment (construction of new housing) and housing services (rents, ... Read More > Housing Lifts Economic Development (and Not the Other Way Around!) January 3, 2023 0 In early September, USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate, in partnership with the Way Forward Housing Coalition, put on an in-person Washington, DC conference “Housing’s Contrib... Read More > Waking a Sleeping Giant: Reflections from ADB’s 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference December 6, 2022 0 Manoj Sharma, ADB’s Chief of Urban Sector Group, SDGs and Climate Change Development, exclaimed that the ADB’s 1st Asia Pacific Housing Conference (AHC 2022) has “woken a ... Read More > A failure to disrupt the housing sector is a failure to our economy, health and planet. October 18, 2022 0 The global housing sector is fragmented, slow to innovate, underfunded and often isolated from the rest development community. Yet, the sector’s status quo can no longer be to... Read More > How Colombia Reaps the Benefits of Affordable Housing September 24, 2022 0 The global economy is in a state of disorder, the adverse effects of climate change have become palpable, and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a clear linkage between poor h... Read More > Housing’s Contribution to Economic Development: Reframing the Narrative September 2, 2022 0 On September 7-8, 2022, in Bethesda MD: The Way Forward Housing Coalition organized a conference to review the economic and social benefits of well-functioning housing markets... Read More > Comparing housing affordability in different African countries using purchasing power parity dollars January 2, 2022 0 A market price reflects the interplay between demand for the product concerned and its supply. The housing market is no different. Changes in the price of accommodation in a p... Read More > Housing finance in Africa: Recovery through recognition of massive small potential December 2, 2021 0 This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay to the 2021 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. After a difficult year, African housing markets are s... Read More > Can new technology solve the global housing crisis? June 2, 2021 0 From 3D printing to biomanufactured materials, new building technologies have been making the headlines as a quicker—and cheaper—way to address the global housing deficit, whi... Read More > Achieving an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery Through Safe Housing: Why it’s Time for Financial Institutions to Step Up March 2, 2021 0 Mrs. Vee is a micro-entrepreneur who makes her living collecting trash in Hanoi. Since the pandemic began, a large part of the waste she collects has been used personal protec... Read More >
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