Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Global – Introducing Sustainability Elements in Low Income Housing

Introducing sustainability elements in low income housing. It covers large activities of developers who were uninterested as different business model; many small developers were interested, but were concerned a...

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India – Housing and Urban Planning Department 11th Five Year Plan

On-going population growth and increasing urbanization are creating major development problems in relation to provision of urban services and planned housing in large cities of the state. While urban population...

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India – Affordable Housing Rajasthan Initiatives

The affordable housing policy of Rajasthan, India in 2009. The presentation covers various housing scenarios, the agencies that are providing affordable housing in the states, the highlights of the Policy citie...

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Pakistan – Islamic Banks Leading in Housing Finance

The interesting point, however, is that the growth has stemmed mainly from the aggressive lending drive of Islamic banks. Islamic banks’ outstanding financing witnessed a whopping rise of 32 percent over the pr...

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Pakistan – Housing Finance Survey Table

Household have been found to be higher in high income bracket. Average household size across Pakistan is 6.9 persons per household. The highest have been found to be 11.1 persons in highest income bracket of mo...

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Pakistan – Co-branded Credit Card: “An innovative approach in Micro Housing Finance”

Microfinance is one of the means for the poor and low-income people to enhance their standards of living and thus reduce poverty. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are organization credit union, down-scaled comm...