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

Housing Lifts Economic Development (and Not the Other Way Around!)

In early September, USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate, in partnership with the Way Forward Housing Coalition, put on an...

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

Arthur Acolin

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

Victoria Flattau

African Development Bank

Rishi Chakraborty

United Nations Development Programme

Alison Tshangana

Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa

College of Built Environments

University of Washington

El-hadj Bah

African Development Bank

Naeem Razwani

Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Minerva Novero

United Nations Development Programme

Gonzalo Pizarro

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...