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Housing and Property Rights - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro  
View Details The hardships that have confronted the people of former Yugoslavia throughout the past decade have been unprecedented in post-World War II Europe. The political and ethnic conflicts of the 1990s have affected all areas of social, economic and polit...
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 169, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Southern Africa  
View Details This set of four reviews provides a broad overview of the national and local legal framework related to land, housing, inheritance and marital property rights in Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. This includes a description of relevant policie...
Year: 2005, Number of pages: 336, Type of publication: Book
Law, Land Tenure and Gender Review: Latin America  
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This set of four reviews provides a broad overview of the national and local legal framework related to land, housing, inheritance and marital property rights in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. This includes a description of relevant poli...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 390, Type of publication: Book
Urbanização de Assentamentos Informais e Regularização Fundiária na América Latina  
View Details This publication describes the importance of the Latin American experiences on human settlements urbanization and security tenure issues. It also explains the relevance of these issues to elaborate human settlements policies in order to ensure better...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 43, Type of publication: Book
La Gestion foncière pour les plus pauvres - Comment intégrer les taudis dans les politiques d’urbanisme  
View Details La misère est le lot d’une grande partie de l’humanité. Un sur cinq d’entre nous tous vit dans un taudis. La moitié d’entre nous manquent de sanitaires élémentaires. Les États du monde entier ont consacré les droits universels à un logement et à de...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Land for all  
View Details UN-HABITAT has been working with slums since its inception. We too, don’t claim to have a magic formula. We are learning every day. We are learning with every project. We have made errors and we have had great successes. We have built up a body of kn...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing and Urban Development in Ghana with special reference to low income housing  
View Details Housing and Urban Development in Ghana with special reference to low income housing
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book
Mejoramientos de asentamientos precarios: condiciones para el desarrollo de programas de amplia escala en América Central  
View Details Mejoramientos de asentamientos precarios: condiciones para el desarrollo de programas de amplia escala en Am鲩ca Central
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 161, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Information brochure on the Housing Policy and Development Section  
View Details A brief information pamphlet outlining the mandate, objectives and activities of the Housing Policy and Development Section.
Year: 2004, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Information brochure for the book launch and panel discussion on Rental housing: An essential option for the urban poor in developing countries  
View Details A brief information pamphlet outlining introduction and objectives of a panel discussion on Rental housing: An essential option for the urban poor in developing countries.
Year: 2004, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Pro Poor Land Management: Integrating Slums into City Planning Approaches  
View Details This publication on Pro Poor Land Management is based on the Handbook on Best Practices, Security of Tenure and Access to Land. It briefly describes recent innovations at the global level in the field of pro poor land management. It shows how governm...
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Global Campaign for Secure Tenure: A tool for Advocating the Provision of Adequate Shelter for the Urban Poor  
View Details Global Campaign for Secure Tenure A tool for Advocating the Provision of Adequate Shelter for the Urban Poor
Year: 2004, Number of pages: 80, Type of publication: Book
Handbook on Best Practices, Security of Tenure and Access to Land - Implementation of the Habitat Agenda  
View Details This handbook identifies recent innovations at the global level in the field of land management and pinpoints land tenure trends. It shows how governments, including local government and other stakeholders, are coming to grips with implementing the...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Building materials and construction technologies: Annotated UN-HABITAT bibliography  
View Details Summary of existing UN-HABITAT publications, reports and other documents on building materials and construction technologies. Provides readers with an overview of work undertaken by UN-HABITAT in these fields during the last two decades. Provides a g...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Rental Housing: An essential option for the urban poor in developing countries  
View Details Demonstrates that most arguments leading to the current bias against rental housing are highly flawed. Argues for more tenure-neutral housing policies, and urges governments to modify regulatory frameworks, develop credit programmes and other forms o...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 251, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guidelines on how to undertake a National Campaign for Secure Tenure  
View Details This document presents a framework for undertaking the Global Campaign for Secure tenure at the national level, It contains and explanation on how the national campaign is situated withi the overall objectives and goals of the GCST. It also present...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (Word)
Habitat Debate Vol. 9, No. 4, Land in an urbanising world  
View Details Equitable land management is an extremely complex problem around the world.Subject to countless legal, administrative, cultural and religious practices, it is something that has to be addressed by taking in a number of factors simultaneously.
Year: 2003, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Rights Legislation  
View Details The report illustrates that effective constitutional and legislative guarantees of the right to adequate housing are not only realistic but have already been adopted successfully in a number of countries with diverse legal, social, economic and cul...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 124, Type of publication: Book
Seminar for Securing Land for the Urban Poor  
View Details This a report of the seminar held in Fukuoka, Japan in October 2001. The UN-HABITAT Fukuoka office in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) organized the seminar which looked into vari...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 108, Type of publication: Book
Cities without slums  
View Details Includes a brief overview of what slums are and why the continue to exist. Assesses the limitations of past policy responses towards slums and lessons learnt. Reviews the potential of current directions and trends towards achieving the goal of cities...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 15, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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