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

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...

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

Victoria Flattau

African Development Bank

Rishi Chakraborty

United Nations Development Programme

Habib Hann

International Finance Corporation

Alice Nabalamba

African Development Bank

Samuel Lynch

Miyamoto International

Alison Tshangana

Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa

Luis Triveño

World Bank

David Smith

Affordable Housing Institute

Minerva Novero

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...