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...

Comparing housing affordability in different African countries using purchasing power parity dollars

A market price reflects the interplay between demand for the product concerned and its supply. The housing market is no...

Members

Thandiwe Dhlamini

African Union for Housing Finance

Richard Green

Dept. of Real Estate Development at University of Southern California

Marja Hoek-Smit

Housing Finance Information Network

Alice Nabalamba

African Development Bank

Lucie Astier-Such

Agence Française de Développement

Victoria Flattau

African Development Bank

Anya Brickman Raredon

Affordable Housing Institute

Renata Rubian

United Nations Development Programme

Luis Triveño

World Bank
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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...