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Bangladesh – Housing Finance Reforms – Unleashing Supply to meet growing Demand

The report is about housing finance reforms in Bangladesh. This policy paper discusses the present state of the housing finance market in Bangladesh and makes recommendations on policy reform options. Despite d...

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Main Focus Areas for Development of the Housing Finance Market BRIEF SUMMARY

Report delineates housing finance markets in Bangladesh, the elements of a housing finance reform strategy, restructuring of Bangladesh house building finance corporation (BHBFC), development of a liquidity fac...

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Bangladesh: Growth with Stability in the Affordable Housing Markets

This presentation presented by Bangladesh Bank on growth in the affordable housing markets in NHB-APUHF, which gives basic information about Bangladesh, housing and housing finance in Bangladesh and its policy ...

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Global: Housing Design And Construction Technology

This document is for the design, construction, and retrofitting of houses. It covers the three principal subjects related to efforts to rebuild housing after a disaster design, construction technology, and the ...

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Global: The Dolrs300 House and Financial Challenge

This document  is discussing an idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world’s poor. This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan’s and Christian Sarkar’s idea to create a scalable...

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North America-Haiti: Housing Delivery, Housing Finance and Housing Policy

This document is about housing delivery and prevalent housing finance system in Haiti. The study has been made after devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. To revitalize Haiti’s economy, Haiti must rebuild...

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Jordan – Zaatari, The-Instant-City-Affordable Housing

This document is about the Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, which is rapidly becoming an “instant city” with formal and informal legal system and all sorts of other economic activities by the inhabitants of the c...

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Global: Financing Housing for the Poor

The document is a “learning note” on financing housing for the poor. It deals with rapidly urbanizing African and Asian cities have a 15-20 year window of opportunity to meet the low income settlement challenge...

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Gulf Region: Housing Markets and Policy Design

The book on housing markets and policy design in the Gulf region contains articles written by various writers and edited by David A. Smith and Angus Freeman. The subjects covered in this book are housing market...

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Mission-Entrepreneurial Entities-Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery

The document on Mission Entrepreneurial Entities’ comparative analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom, with implications for the global south. Mission Entrepreneurial Entities (MEEs) is a private n...

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The Growing Crisis of Affordable Housing

The document on a growing crisis of affordable housing in MENA. In July 2012 Ernst & Young Middle East and the Affordable Housing Institute organized and co-hosted the inaugural ‘Housing Markets and Policy ...

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Affordable Housing Innovations For Mission Entrepreneurial Entities

The document in which Affordable Housing Innovations explored affordable housing strategy from one of its two critical perspectives the government. This month we look at the Mission Entrepreneurial Entities, Th...

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Bangladesh: Rehab at a Glance

The brief information paper about Association. Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) at a glance. The information pertains to the year 2004. Urbanization is an outcome of both population g...

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Bangladesh: Low-Income Communities

The low-income communities face constraints in building adequate housing, particularly in the developing world, which are often formidable and intractable, deeply linked to political and economic order as well ...

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Bangladesh: Interlocking Blocks HFH

This document is about making interlocking building blocks in Bangladesh,  as stated by Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh, it is committed to building a portfolio of construction options through innovative resear...

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Bangladesh – The Housing Sector Institutional Strengthening

This document is a technical assistance report by the Asian Bank on the strengthening of housing sector institutions in Bangladesh prepared in 1995. Bangladesh faces a major housing problem. With a very low GNP...

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Bangladesh: Housing and Housing Sector

The document on housing and housing sector in Bangladesh. One of the most important basic needs of an individual, undoubtedly denotes affordable housing for providing him/her shelter, security as well as social...

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Bangladesh: Habitat for Humanity

The document of Habitat for Humanity on Cyclone Sidr which was was the second occasion Habitat for Humanity responded to a natural disaster in Bangladesh. The cyclone struck as Habitat was providing transitiona...

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Afghanistan: Final Report Rural Housing Microfinance

This document is a  Final Report summarizing the findings of SBI after conducting a Rural Housing Microfinance Survey for First Microfinance Bank-Afghanistan (FMFB-A). This survey was developed to support FMFB-...

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Afghanistan: Rural Housing Micro-Finance

This presentation is about First Micro Finance Bank Afghanistan’s offering housing microfinance since 2008 and their current portfolio growing to more than $6 million in loans outstanding, serving more than 4,5...

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Afghanistan: Regulatory and Policy Interventions to Promote Housing

This document is about developing the housing sector requires a clear legal framework and institutional infrastructure for commercial and financial transactions in the housing market. That means creating a soun...