Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

Slum tourism

Slum Tourism: Ethical Concerns and Cultural Insights

Slum Tourism: Ethical Concerns and Cultural Insights Tourism to slums, visiting poor neighborhoods, is a phenomenon that has evolved over the past two decades. Ruins almost touristic in Rio de Janeiro, g...

Sustainable Slum Solutions

Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Slum Solutions

Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Slum Solutions Slum villages are a universal problem affecting over one billion people in urban areas globally. As shelters, and sources of income for many, slums h...

Slum Redevelopment Programs

Case Studies: Successful Slum Redevelopment Programs

Case Studies: Successful Slum Redevelopment Programs In this brief and thought-provoking book, Davis claims that slums are an international problem, resulting from newly urbanizing societies, poverty, and po...

biggest slums in the world

10 Biggest Slums in the World: Understanding Urban Poverty

10 Biggest Slums in the World: Understanding Urban Poverty It must be remembered that slums are part of the current global urban texture, and millions of people live in them. Such communities are overcro...

smart homes

What Are Smart Homes for Affordable Living

What Are Smart Homes for Affordable Living When people speak of smart homes, the first thing that comes to the mind of most individuals is modern day sophisticated buildings. But with today’s progress in...

tiny homes

Tiny Homes as a Solution for Affordable Living

Tiny Homes as a Solution for Affordable Living As housing prices have risen high, and the population of urban areas is increasing, coming across the economically viable and sustainable housing solution is a ...

rapid rehousing

Rapid Rehousing a Pathway to Stability

Rapid Rehousing a Pathway to Stability Rapid Rehousing or (RRH) is a brief, targeted approach to swiftly house homeless individuals and families and further provide them with other needed assistance. It ...

micro apartments

Micro Apartments – A Solution to Urban Affordability

Micro Apartments – A Solution to Urban Affordability Because cities are expanding and owning a house at a reasonable price is getting nearly impossible, micro apartments are perspectives for the future...

crowdfunding for affordable housing projects

Leveraging Crowdfunding for Affordable Housing Projects

Leveraging Crowdfunding for Affordable Housing Projects Lack of affordable housing has been felt all over globe more so due to skyrocketing prices of property and lack of enough financial support from the go...

affordable housing maintenance

Best Practices for Affordable Housing Maintenance

Best Practices for Affordable Housing Maintenance Housing is one of the basic needs of man, cheap-housing has the grace of providing safe/adequate shelter for the needy, for the poor and the needy, for the h...

cohousing

How Cohousing Can Be an Affordable Housing Solution

How Cohousing Can Be an Affordable Housing Solution With affordability dwindling and social isolation being a key factor to worry about, cohousing is set to become more effective and timely. Based on thi...

affordable housing for single parents

Affordable Housing for Single Parents: Resources and Challenges

Affordable Housing for Single Parents: Resources and Challenges Where to get cheap and steady accommodation is one of the biggest problems which one-parent families face. Given the role of bringing up ch...

affordable housing for senior citizens

Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens: Challenges and Solutions

Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens: Challenges and Solutions There is the concern for pet housing needs that come with aging populations in most regions globally or a need for affordable housing for seni...

nimbysim

Addressing the NIMBYISM: Affordable Housing Advocacy Tips

Addressing the NIMBYISM: Affordable Housing Advocacy Tips One of the major challenges to the affordable housing journey is NIMBYISM or Not in My Backyard.; secondly, opposition to affordable housing often ha...

rammed earth construction

What Is Rammed Earth Construction and Why Is It Cost-Effective

What Is Rammed Earth Construction and Why Is It Cost-Effective Some of the more traditional and still very valid forms of construction are today being adopted in modern sustainable architecture such as ramme...

high-density housing projects

Top High-Density Housing Projects around the World

Top High-Density Housing Projects around the World Compact living is part of the fundamental features of new housing design for the contemporary city to increase density, enhance resource efficiency and to s...

Hybrid Construction in Affordable Housing

The Role of Hybrid Construction in Affordable Housing Initiatives

The Role of Hybrid Construction in Affordable Housing Initiatives The problem of affordable housing is considered to be one of the key challenges that cities today are facing. As the population of people...

insulation for energy efficiency

Low-Cost Houses Insulation for Energy Efficiency

Low-Cost Houses Insulation for Energy Efficiency Decrease of specific consumption of energy has become one of the prerequisites of creating a contemporary housing, and insulation is one of the primary factor...

urbanization impacts

How Urbanization Impacts River Gypsy Communities

How Urbanization Impacts River Gypsy Communities River gypsies or also called Boat dwellers, Water nomads have been living upon river and alongside coast for few centuries and totally depending on water Sour...

land record computerization

How Land Record Computerization Can Curb Corruption

How Land Record Computerization Can Curb Corruption Land and property are significant aspects of economic growth, however, in most of the nations, the land record proactivity is the big problem. Miscondu...

compact settlements for affordable housing

Compact Settlements for Affordable Housing – How it Contributes

Compact Settlements for Affordable Housing – How it Contributes With increased urbanization across the globe poverty and increased sizes of families dwelling in cities pose a problem as to where to liv...