Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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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...

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Pakistan – Mortgage Finance Opportunities and Challenges

Opportunities and challenges of mortgage financing in Pakistan.  Among many other related issues, it discusses the impediments on the way of growth of mortgage, which are lack of developer home buyer financing ...

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Pakistan – Housing Demand in Islamabad Capital Territory

Housing differs from the standard Neoclassical good; it is heterogeneous and its spatial fixity means that the location of the housing stock matters to households. Promoting the Concept of Housing Finance. Enco...

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Global – Islamic Housing Finance

Islamic housing finance. There are two basic Quranic concepts shaping modern Islamic finance: explicit prohibitions by God against riba and maysir. The Quran, the divine word of God, does not explain in detail....

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Pakistan – Housing Finance Quarterly Oct to Dec 2009

The reported average time for loan processing is 24 days for all banks and DFIs; a trend that has remained almost similar over the year. Currently, the application processing of most banks is a centralized proc...

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Pakistan – Khuda Ki Basti: Incremental Development Plan in Karachi

Khuda-ki-Basti is a grid-like, planned layout within the 5500-acre Gulshan-eShabbaz housing development located in Hyderabad. It is the site of a development scheme devised by the Hyderabad Development Authorit...

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Khuda ki Basti Incremental Development Scheme in Pakistan

An affordable housing scheme in Pakistan, titled “Khuda-ki-Basti, in the city of Hyderabad, Pakistan. In this scheme, the actual housing is built incrementally as individual incomes allow; the social transforma...

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Pakistan – Khuda Ki Basti

An affordable housing scheme in Pakistan, titled “Khuda-ki-Basti, in the city of Hyderabad, Pakistan. This housing scheme was initiated by the former director general of the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA...

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Pakistan – Evaluation of The Hda’s Khuda-Ki-Basti Incremental Housing Scheme

In March 1986, the HDA launched an Incremental Housing Scheme (IHS) in a portion of Gulshan-i-Shahbaz, a township which is being developed on the periphery of Hyderabad, Sind. The scheme aimed at overcoming the...

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Pakistan – HBFC An Institutional Turnaround Spanning

House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC) was set up under the Government Act (titled “HBFC Act-1952”) as a public sector enterprise soon after Pakistan’s independence in 1947.  Thus HBFC (the Corporation), est...

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Asia – Islamic Financial Markets Conference & Specialized Workshops

REITs originated in United States in 1960. They were created by US Congress to make investments in large-scale, income-generating real estate accessible to small investors. The Congress envisaged REITs as entit...

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Conference on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

  It is a presentation on mortgage-backed securitization (MBS), which globally is a very popular product. hopefully, HBFC’s proposed securitization will be the first MBS in the country. the proposed size o...

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Pakistan – Islamic Model of House Financing

The Nature of contract is a co-ownership. The transaction is not based on lending & borrowing of money but on the joint ownership of an asset. In Islamic Housing Finance, bank takes risk in property up to t...

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Pakistan: Islamic Housing Finance

This presentation is based on Islamic housing financing. It describes various modes of Islamic financing like Murabaha, Ijarah, Istisna, and Diminishing Musharakah (Mostly used in banks for Islamic Housing Fina...

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Africa – Sustainable Rental Housing Market

The need and methods of developing sustainable formal rental housing market. It discusses the advantages of rental housing against homeownership, the availability and affordability across households with varyin...

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India: Affordable Housing

Affordable housing in Ahmedabad, India. In 2012, the estimated housing shortage in India was 18.78 million units. 88% of this shortage pertains to households with annual incomes of about Rs100,000 (USD 1,724) a...

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Afghanistan: Housing and Housing Finance-Report on Financial Sector

This document is  detailing the state of housing and housing finance of Afghanistan. The document mentions how Afghanistan’s particular history had an effect on the urbanization and flow of population within th...

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Afghanistan Housing Sector Assessment

This paper outlines the current situation in which financial institutions operate within the housing sector and the major issues that need to be addressed and make recommendations on positive movement towards t...

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Pakistan – Affordable Housing & Housing Subsidy Options

Housing shortage in Pakistan has assumed an alarming proportion which requires a careful evaluation, assessment and well planed strategies to minimize housing backlog. Government has initiated practical steps i...

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Pakistan Prime Minister’s Low-Income-Housing Program

Housing is a Provincial subject sine land is a Provincial Subject. Procurement and development of Land for development of housing under different modes including PPP Mode. Execution of Low-Income Housing Progra...

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Pakistan – Road Map to Housing Finance

On housing finance guidelines for proper regulations of financing by Infrastructure and Housing Finance Department of State Bank of Pakistan. A strong, well defined and prudent Regulatory regime has direct impa...