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

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)...

How Colombia Reaps the Benefits of Affordable Housing

The global economy is in a state of disorder, the adverse effects of climate change have become palpable, and the...

Members

Olga Koukoui

Agence Française de Développement

Alice Nabalamba

African Development Bank

Luis Triveño

World Bank

Victor Mints

International Finance Corporation

Gonzalo Pizarro

United Nations Development Programme

Stefan Atchia

African Development Bank

College of Built Environments

University of Washington

Lucie Astier-Such

Agence Française de Développement

Renata Rubian

United Nations Development Programme
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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...