Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Hong Kong: The facts

This document is based on the fact sheet on Hong Kong’s housing. It states that,  The Government’s housing policy is premised on three major guiding principles. First, the thrust of the Government’s subsi...

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Hong Kong: Housing Need and Affordability

This report based on Housing Need and A­ffordability in Hong Kong (2011). This report specifically addresses the affordability and rising price issue in two aspects: 1) presenting an overview of affordable hous...

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Residential Affordability Index Hong Kong

This states the calculation and use of residential affordability index in Hong Kong. It states that, roughly 50% of the Hong Kong population live in public rental flats or subsidized housing. Hence, the remaini...

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Public Housing in Hong Kong Past, Present and Future

This document is based on past, present and future of public housing in Hong Kong. The development of public housing in Hong Kong can be traced back to 1953 when a large fire broke out in one of the squatter ar...

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Hong Kong: Housing policy and framework

This is a brief of housing policy, public rental housing, and rent policy in Hong Kong. The focus of the Government’s subsidized housing policy should be on the provision of assistance to low-income families wh...

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Mitigating potential Hong Kong property bubbles

This is an article based on potential property bubble in Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Housing Journal. According to the writer of the article, Leland Sun, Managing Director of Pan Asian Mortgage Ltd,, few places in t...

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Housing Authority and its Financial Arrangement

This document is based on Hong Kong’s housing authority over the past 50 years. Hong Kong is renowned for its extensive public housing program. Since 1973, the restructured Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) has ...

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Germany: Housing Finance

This presentation is based on German housing finance system. This system is based on three pillars, which are i)  Deliberate legal and regulatory framework, ii) Prudent financing culture and iii) Stable funding...

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Egypt: Overview of the Housing Sector

This document is an overview of the housing sector of Egypt. This review of the Egyptian mortgage market makes clear, the Egyptian government has begun the process of building out the institutional capacity and...

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Egypt – Mortgage Finance Fund

This document is about establishing Egypt’s establishing the Mortgage Finance Fund (MFF) mandated to be the major subsidy provider of low income housing in Egypt. This included setting up a new organizational s...

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Egypt Infrastructure Report Q4 2008

This document is containing the Egypt Infrastructure Report of Q4 2008 and the forecast for the next 5 years. The Ministry of State For Economic Development shows a tremendous surge in private and public invest...

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Egypt Housing Sector Overview

Housing investment is a key component of economic development, both because housing is a basic social need and because private home ownership is often an important source of capital for entrepreneurship at the ...

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China’s Affordable Housing Dilemma

The title of the document is “China’s affordable housing dilemma”. In China, housing reform was started in 1979. The opening up of the market through these reforms produced some dilemmas, which have been discus...

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China: Mortgage Market

This document is a study of the mortgage market of China by Economy Watch. It says mortgage lending in China has been growing at a rate of 54.9% between 2000 and H2004. The housing mortgage in China is not so o...

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China: Urban Low-income Housing

This document discusses urban China’s low-income housing “indemnification” system. Urban China’s low-income housing “indemnification” system. The system features three facili...

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China’s Housing Bubble – Mitigation Measures

This document is a paper on the rising trend of market-based property prices in China. It is stated that during twelve years from 1998 to 2010 the market-based price of houses tripled in China. In recent years ...

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China: Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai

The document is on upgrading China’s rapidly increasing market-based housing system, assimilation of builders and developers in the act of providing increasing requirements housing, and high rises particularly ...

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Canada: Housing Market and Housing Finance Conditions

This is a presentation based on the housing market and housing finance conditions in Canada and the impacts of the financial crisis of 2008 on the market. It studies how the crisis affected the market by housin...

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Canadian Housing Observer 2011

This book on Canadian dealing with, household indebtedness, housing markets, demographic and socio-economic influences on housing demand, and recent trends in housing affordability and core housing need. The Ca...

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Challenges of Affordable Housing Finance in Islamic Development Bank

IDB – Challenges of affordable housing finance in Islamic development bank member countries using Islamic Modes and this document by Nasim Shah Shirazi, Muhammad Zulkhibri, Salman Syed Ali, Occasional Paper No....

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Bahrain Housing: A great History with a bright future

There is no doubt that the housing profile in the Kingdom of Bahrain has become the most highlighted living-related issue that comes on the top of the Bahraini citizens’ priorities, which is fully underst...