Spotlight

The Way Forward Housing Collaborative is pleased to spotlight the following research,
events and blogs this month:

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 status quo can no longer be tolerated. An estimated 1.6 billion people lack adequate housing, with the deficit continuing to grow larger each day

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,...

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)...

Members

Victoria Flattau

African Development Bank

Victor Mints

International Finance Corporation

Lucie Astier-Such

Agence Française de Développement

Richard Green

Dept. of Real Estate Development at University of Southern California

Gonzalo Pizarro

United Nations Development Programme

Kecia Rust

Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa

Minerva Novero

United Nations Development Programme

Rishi Chakraborty

United Nations Development Programme

Arthur Acolin

Runstad Dept of Real Estate in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington
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Peruvian study finds “going back to basics” on sustainable housing solutions can be key: They are simple, and reduce household costs

In honor of Earth Day, this month we travel to Lima, Peru, to examine how Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation...
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Building Affordability into Tomorrow’s Megacities

New cities are being designed from the ground up. As we design the megacities of tomorrow, let’s leverage lessons learned...