The Affordable Housing Market in Pakistan: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
There is a chronic and rapidly escalating housing challenge in Pakistan. With a shortage of at least 10 million homes and demand increasing at a far higher rate than supply, over 40% of the urban population continues to reside in slums, informal settlements, or inadequate dwellings.
Lack of data is a key blockage to tackling the escalating affordable housing crisis in middle- and low-income countries. A lack of transparent information impedes housing markets, acting as a barrier to equitable access and affordable supply. An improved supply of credible, accessible, and transparent market intelligence is needed to inform inclusive policymaking, amplify the investment case for climate-smart affordable housing, and crowd in new actors and resources to deliver at scale.
This briefing shares and analyses data and information on the state of the affordable urban housing market in Pakistan. The Market Shaping Indicators (MSI) is a cutting-edge international initiative to improve access to quality data on housing markets in African and Asian geographies, pioneered by market leaders Reall and the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance (CAHF). In Pakistan, evidence was collected by Reall and Impetus Advisory Group (IAG), as part of the MSI project.
