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’s Contribution to Economic Development: Reframing the Narrative

On September 7-8, 2022, in Bethesda MD: The Way Forward Housing Coalition organized a conference to review the economic and...

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

Thandiwe Dhlamini

African Union for Housing Finance

Rishi Chakraborty

United Nations Development Programme

Victor Mints

International Finance Corporation

Habib Hann

International Finance Corporation

Arthur Acolin

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

Renata Rubian

United Nations Development Programme

Victoria Flattau

African Development Bank

Anya Brickman Raredon

Affordable Housing Institute

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...