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 finance in Africa: Recovery through recognition of massive small potential

This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay[1] to the 2021 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. After...

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)...

Members

Victor Mints

International Finance Corporation

David Smith

Affordable Housing Institute

Stefan Atchia

African Development Bank

Patrick McAllister

Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Marja Hoek-Smit

Housing Finance Information Network

El-hadj Bah

African Development Bank

Lara Shankar Chandra

Consultant - Habitat for Humanity International

Rishi Chakraborty

United Nations Development Programme

Richard Green

Dept. of Real Estate Development at University of Southern California
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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...