Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Tackling the housing affordability challenge, Mexican experience

This presentation is based on  Mexico’s affordability issues, the cost of affordable housing in Mexico, issues faced by the social housing sector, a brief of new programs, like rural housing, mortgages for micr...

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Savings schemes to finance housing in Brazil

This presentation is based on the information and financial data of savings schemes to finance housing in Brazil. The study contains financial and graphical information about the National Housing Finance System...

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Lessons Learned from the Global Financial Crisis in USA

This is a presentation discusses in bullet points the financial crisis of 2007-2008 in the USA in specific and in the world in general which very badly affected the mortgage market, as a result of which it is s...

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Housing markets in Latin America & the Caribbean Challenge

This is a presentation studies the affordable housing sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) area. Housing needs in LAC are compelling. Urban housing is the largest impact investment opportunity in the...

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USA: Housing Finance Market Integration

The presentation is a study by Deniz Igan, an official of IMF, with a disclaimer that, he views expressed are that of the presenter, and officially not of IMF, gives a view on global equity generation, linkages...

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Housing Finance and Real Estate Booms

This presentation is based on IMF Staff Discussion Note 15/12, June 2015, and Cerutti, Dagher, and Dell’ Aricia’s paper of 2017 titled “Housing Finance and Real Estate Booms: A Cross-Country Perspective” ...

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GSE reform Creating a Sustainable More Vibrant Secondary Mortgage Market

This presentation is the Mortgage Banking Association’s (MBA) giving brief of a study carried out by its designated team for reform of Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE), namely Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac f...

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Asia-Pacific Regional Developments in Housing Finance

This presentation contains housing scenarios and challenges around the globe, defining affordability for low-income housing, and activities for regional developments in housing finance in the Asia-Pacific regio...

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Global: Making Housing Finance More Sustainable

Global: Making Housing Finance More Sustainable This is a presentation gives a brief about mortgage insurance business, and information about Genworth, which is the leading provider of mortgage insurance in the...

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Making Mortgage Finance Work India

This is a presentation on Indian housing needs, mortgage market activities, economic indicators and development, and a brief about Housing Development Finance Corporation of India.

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Making Mortgage Finance Work Mexico

This is a presentation having these contents. Demographic Bonus. Housing Demand Individual Mortgage Loans The Mexican Financial Market Actual Loans Supply in Mexico

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Building Homes changing Lives

The document giving habitat and sanitation development in the Vietnamese city was carried out by Habitat for Humanity Vietnam. According to the US-based Center for Housing Policy “Well-constructed, maintained a...

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Vietnam Urbanization review

As Vietnam enters a crucial period of urbanization corresponding to its present stage of economic development, the Government of Vietnam has placed strong emphasis on developing its system of cities. This commi...

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Vietnam Q&A About Real Estate and Mortgage

This document, explains in question-answer form, various issues in Vietnam like, real estate, tangible movable property, shares and financial instruments, claims and receivables, intellectual property, problem ...

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Incentives for Developing Low Income Housing

The Ministry of Construction has submitted to the government a list of sweeteners, including tax breaks it wants to offer property developers to invest in low-income housing. The proposal it sent on January 15 ...

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The UK’s Model of Effective Non-Statutory Regulation

This document presents the rationale behind and an overview of the significant regulatory changes happening in the UK. It goes on to speculate on how these changes might affect the shape and structure of the UK...

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Evaluation of the Low Cost Home Ownership Program

The document states that the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (now the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ODPM) and the Welsh Assembly Government commissioned research in July 2001 to ...

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The Mortgage Market

This document is the Final Report making recommendations on how the mortgage market in the UK can be helped to work better. It builds on the Interim Report that was published at the time of the Pre-Budget Repor...

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Islamic REITs in Gulf

Broad Categories of REITS: Liability side-Equity REITs (ER): These “own and operate” income-producing real estate entities (Development REITs and Rental REITs). Their revenues come from the Rent charged on thei...

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Dubai Real Estate Market Report

This is a market research paper of Landmark Advisory, UAE, for the fourth quarter of 2008 introducing the Dubai Property Price Index, which is uniquely based on transactional data. The majority of quantitative ...

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Singapore- Effective Housing and Retirement Policies

This paper is describing Singapore’s effective housing and retirement policies. Singapore’s success in providing homeownership to a majority of its middle-income working people can largely be attributable to a ...