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Profil du Secteur du Logement Urban au Senegal (Senegal Urban Housing Sector Profile)  
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Le profil du secteur du logement au Sénégal est une analyse complète du secteur du logement urbain, avec un regard concentre sur l'identification de ses points forts et faiblesses. Le profil contribue à la création d'un cadre devant permettre la p...

Year: 2013, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Zambia Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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A national Housing Profile can be the first step to inform and engage policy and decision-makers, and provide them with the evidence needed to design their choices and support critical decisions.

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Year: 2012, Number of pages: 202, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Uganda Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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This profile is a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the structure and functioning of Uganda's urban housing sector.It disclosws its strenghts and weakneses and at the same time makes suggestions on directions for policy intervention.

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Year: 2012, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities  
View Details The concept of housing requires a new understanding to effectively address the pressing issues of slums, the urban divide, economic and human development, and climate change. No longer regarded as simply a roof over one's head, housing today plays a ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Africa  
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In the vast majority of countries land and housing affordability is a critical contemporary challenge. While in different countries and regions the specificities of the challenge vary, the universal truism is that it is becoming increasing difficu...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Enabling Shelter Strategies  
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Enabling shelter strategies call for a fundamental shift in the role of government, from provider to enabler of affordable housing. While such strategies have been utilised over the last two decades to improve affordable shelter delivery, there re...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 68, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Condominium Housing in Ethiopia  
View Details Housing Practices is an ongoing series that documents the experiences of countries who are implementing large-scale affordable housing programmes. It is a flagship series developed and produced by the Housing Policy Section of UNHABITAT, which provid...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 65, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Policy Guide to Rental Housing in Developing Countries  
View Details Rental housing has remained a neglected area of national housing policy which has instead focused, often exclusively, on promoting home ownership. Consequently, rental housing has been overlooked with very few governments implementing any kind of pol...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Securing Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples in Cities  
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This Policy Guide provides policy-makers with the necessary knowledge about the challenges and rights of Indigenous peoples in relation to land and property in the urban context. The Guide sets out how to secure land rights of Indigenous peoples i...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 102, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
A Practical Guide for Conducting Housing Profiles - Revised Version  
View Details A practical guide to conducting comprehensive national housing profiles with a direct objective of understanding the housing sector, while offering evidence-based data to inform policy reform. The housing profile process also aims to be highly partic...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Forced Evictions  
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This report reviews the status of forced evictions globally through the work of UN-HABITAT, the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, and other international actors. It describes and evaluates the important su...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 140, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Losing your Home  
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The practice of forcibly evicting people from their homes and settlements is a growing global phenomenon and represents a crude violation of one of the most elementary principles of the right to adequate housing as defined in the Habitat Agenda an...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 110, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Europe and North America  
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This volume investigates the state of affordable land and housing in Europe and North America (countries that comprise the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)). It explores the major trends in housing provision, conditions, avail...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable land and housing in Latin America and the Caribbean  
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Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanisation. Today, the region is the second most urbanised region in the world.
This urbanisation process has been accompanied b...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Affordable Land and Housing in Asia  
View Details In the vast majority of countries land and housing affordability is a critical contemporary challenge. While in different countries and regions the specificities of the challenge vary, the universal truism is that it is becoming increasing difficult ...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Nepal Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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Today, the housing situation in Nepal, especially for the urban poor, remains far from adequate. Indeed, urban dwellers in Nepal have been finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing due to rapid price rises in land. Such is the challenge ...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 141, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Ghana Housing Profile  
View Details The Ghana Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focusing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing for a...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Tunisia Urban Housing Sector Profile  
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The Tunisia Urban Housing Sector Profile is a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the urban housing sector, focussing on its strengths and weaknesses. The Profile contributes to the creation of a framework that enables provision of adequate housing...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 130, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
MALAWI Urban Housing Sector Profile  
View Details The Malawi Urban Housing Sector Profile is the first in a new UN-HABITAT report series. It is an analytical tool to support a comprehensive assessment of housing delivery systems in different countries tackling access to land, housing finance, basic ...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 152, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Housing Finance Mechanisms in Brazil  
View Details The real estate credit system used in Brazil for residential housing (known as the Housing Finance System-SFH), was created in 1964. Previously, there was no organized system for housing financing in Brazil. Its structure has changed since then (19...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 50, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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