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Building Affordability into Tomorrow’s Megacities
0New cities are being designed from the ground up. As we design the megacities of tomorrow, let’s leverage lessons learned...
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Unlocking Housing Finance for Women: Perspectives from IFC and Sewa Grih Rin Ltd. (Sitara)
Access to safe and affordable housing is a fundamental human right. But unfortunately, it is not enjoyed equally by all...
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Recognition for demand-side finance paves the way for change
We know that housing has a larger-than-expected contribution to developing country GDP when both housing investment (construction of new housing)...
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Waking a Sleeping Giant: Reflections from ADB’s 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference
Manoj Sharma, ADB’s Chief of Urban Sector Group, SDGs and Climate Change Development, exclaimed that the ADB’s 1st Asia Pacific...
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A failure to disrupt the housing sector is a failure to our economy, health and planet.
The global housing sector is fragmented, slow to innovate, underfunded and often isolated from the rest development community. Yet, the sector’s...
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How Colombia Reaps the Benefits of Affordable Housing
The global economy is in a state of disorder, the adverse effects of climate change have become palpable, and the...
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Housing finance in Africa: Recovery through recognition of massive small potential
This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay[1] to the 2021 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. After...
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Can new technology solve the global housing crisis?
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,...
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