There is broad consensus on the fact that housing has central importance to everyone’s quality of life and health with considerable economic, social, cultural, and personal significance. The way in which housing is produced and exchanged impacts development goals as well as environmental sustainability and the mitigation of natural disasters. The design of dwellings and neighborhoods reflects and protects important elements of values and culture. The important role of housing production in employment generation, particularly for unskilled labor, is recognized globally. Despite considerable progress has been achieved in developing countries in the past two decades in policy formulation, facilitating a shift of the public sector’s role to strengthening of enabling strategies and focusing on the utilization of the potential and capacity of informal sectors, there is a widening gap between policy formulation and the implementation process, and the status of low-income housing delivery is far beyond being satisfactory.