Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Rental housing an essential option for the urban poor in developing countries

A 228-page PDF document on rental housing as an essential option for the urban poor in developing countries. The report contains the significance of renting houses and also the concept and practice of “bu...

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Urbanization and mushrooming Slums in Paksitan

Pakistan, ranked 141 of 182 on the United Nations Human Poverty Index, faces complex development challenges and is characterized by major inequalities in income and access to basic services. A high proportion o...

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Low Cost/Income Housing

An 80-page presentation on low-cost/low-income housing. It covers housing – a mega issue, affordability issues (small and medium housing (SMH) financing), Social Housing Company (SHC), a low-cost settlement (Kh...

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Economic Empowerment of Shelter-less

A 23-page presentation on the economic empowerment of shelterless people by providing affordable housing through micro housing supply (social housing company), micro-housing finance (social housing bank), and e...

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Issues of Affordable Housing

A 19-page document about the acute housing shortage in Pakistan, requiring encouragement of housing supply through new constructions, which also boosts economic activity in the country, as it put into motion mo...

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The Housing bank for Small Medium Housing Finance

To be a socially responsible and commercially sustainable housing Bank. To be the prime housing finance institution of the country for providing affordable housing to low and middle-income groups of the populat...