Evidence Center : Incremental Housing
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Liberia: Partnerships for Informal Settlement Upgrading
The majority of Monrovia, Liberia’s population lives in informal settlements, and only 20% of the highest income group in the...
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Ethiopia: The Integrated Urban Slum Upgrading Project
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is rapidly urbanizing and faces a housing crisis, as 80% of the population lives in informal settlements....
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Kenya: Revisiting Sites and Services as a Housing Strategy
In the 1970s and 1980s, sites and services, or the provision of small, serviced plots to residents who will incrementally...
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Lebanon: Rehabilitating Historical Housing for Vulnerable Populations
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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Ghana: Gendered Barriers to Land and Property Ownership
In Ghana, homeownership is a process, as the most common method is using personal savings to build the home over...
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Indonesia: Gendered Barriers to Accessing Housing Finance.
Indonesia has an urban qualitative housing deficit of 22 million households – an issue that is compounded for female-headed households...
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India: Expanding Low-Income Housing Finance
There are major shortages in India’s housing stock, with a backlog in 2012 estimated at 19 million units. Developers tend...
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Argentina: Procrear expands access to multiple kinds of credit
With the aim to increase and improve the conditions of access to housing finance, Procrear is a federal housing development...
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Botswana: No-Interest Loans for Self-Built Homes
Despite Botswana’s higher per-capita income compared to most other countries in the region, ensuring access to an affordable mortgage remains...
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Bulgaria: Improving Efficiencies for Energy-Poor Communities
Due to high energy prices and poor energy efficiency of buildings, heating systems, and household appliances, residents of Central and...
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