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    • Brazil: Selling Development Rights to Fund Affordable Housing
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    Selling development rights is a possible fee-based instrument to develop affordable housing, but only when done strategically. As regulatory requirements...
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    Argentina: Urbanizing Rural Land for Social Housing
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    Essential to the development of affordable housing is effective land administration and policy. One tool in land administration is land...
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    Mexico: The Social Housing Policy
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    Mexico has gone through many different housing policy regimes. In 2019, the Social Housing Policy (Programa de Vivienda Social) was...
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    Mexico: Drawbacks to the Mass Production of Housing
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    Like many other countries in the region, Mexico has a significant housing deficit, and has put in a large amount...
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    Zambia: The Urban and Regional Planning Act, 2015
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    Despite showing significant economic growth over the past two decades, Zambia has high levels of inequality and the housing deficit...
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    Zambia: Creating an Enabling Environment with the National Housing Policy
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    Due to a shortage of affordable formal housing, as well as the colonial legacy of not allowing Zambians to settle...
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    Lebanon: Rehabilitating Historical Housing for Vulnerable Populations
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    With funding from the Lebanon Financing Facility administered by the World Bank, Lebanon’s Housing Rehabilitation and Cultural and Creative Industries...
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    South Africa: Social Housing Institutions and Nonprofit Housing Provision
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    Addressing housing shortages has been a key goal of the South African government since it became a new democracy in...
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    South Africa: Reducing Utility Costs and Emissions with Affordable Green Housing
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    South Africa faces a shortage of affordable housing, and so to meet the demand, IFC invested $21 million in a...
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    Rwanda: The National Land Use and Development Masterplan
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    Essential to implementing the goals of Rwanda’s Vision 2050, which promises universal access to decent and affordable housing, is the...
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