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

Waking a Sleeping Giant: Reflections from ADB’s 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference

Manoj Sharma, ADB’s Chief of Urban Sector Group, SDGs and Climate Change Development, exclaimed that the ADB’s 1st Asia Pacific...

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,...

Members

College of Built Environments

University of Washington

Luis Triveño

World Bank

Naeem Razwani

Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Thandiwe Dhlamini

African Union for Housing Finance

Arthur Acolin

Runstad Dept of Real Estate in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington

Victor Mints

International Finance Corporation

Renata Rubian

United Nations Development Programme

Olivia Nielsen

Miyamoto International

Alison Tshangana

Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa
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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...