Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Pakistan: Solar for Housing

The use of solar energy in houses. It discusses the points why Pakistan needs solar energy for housing, such as Pakistan is facing an acute shortage of electricity. The current supply is largely thermal and hyd...

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Sponsor a Shelter Foundation Pakistan HBFC

This presentation is based on sponsoring a shelter program proposed to be handled by HBFCL. This is a public support program through zakat and donations for enhancing mortgaged payment capacity of low-income bo...

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An Overview of Surjani Town – A Low Cost Housing Scheme of KDA in Pakistan

This document overviews the low-cost housing scheme planned by KDA through World Bank finances in Surjani Town in the city of Karachi. The document outlines the investments made by HBFC and the fact that due to...

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Low Income Housing in a Rapidly Urbanizing in Pakistan

Low income housing in a rapidly urbanizing Pakistan. Pakistan is a rapidly urbanizing country. The proportion of its urban population was 15 percent at the time of independence. Now about 40 percent of the popu...

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Real Estate Market(REM) in Pakistan

Real Estate Market(REM) has taken exponential plunge in the wake of the economic recession driving the investor settlement to all time lows. However where the world has failed in providing opportunities and pot...

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Population, Housing Census in Pakistan

The Council of Common Interest (CCI), which met here at the PM Office on Wednesday with Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in the chair, decided that the 6th population census will be held in March 2016 with ...

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Book on Housing – Mortgage Finance Guidelines – Introduction

This document is a draft book on housing, which is the portion of mortgage finance Guidelines. This series of documents on mortgage financing has been written as textbook material with the express intention tha...

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Analyzing The PLS Based Saving – Poverty Alleviation

This presentation is outlining the reasons behind the required change in the interest-based conventional microfinance approach for alleviation of poverty. The presentation also analyses the PLS-based MitGhamr s...

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Pakistan: Microfinancing by Islamic Microfinance Institution

The presentation is Isaiah Islamic Microfinance Institution, Pakistan’ Islamic micro-finance initiatives. Isaiah Islamic Microfinance Institution  registered as a non Profit Public Limited Company Limited by Gu...

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Malaysia Building and common Property (Maintenance and Management) Act 2007

This document is based on a Malaysian act titled Building And Common Property (Maintenance And Management) Act 2007.    

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Pakistan: NGO “Saiban’s” project “Khuda ki Basti”4

On a hot summer day in July 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan I visited Saiban’s KKB4 housing community; and under a veil of intense heat I found energy and inspiration in a woman with a vision and entrepreneurial acume...

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Pakistan – Social Housing Bank

This is a presentation on the social housing bank in Pakistan initiated by House Building Finance Corporation of Pakistan to design, develop and manage specific Low-Cost Housing Projects, a Social Housing Compa...

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State of Housing and Mortgage Finance in East Asian Countries

The state of housing and mortgage finance in nine East Asian countries, which are; Singapore, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, and Vietnam. A geo...

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Country Report – Vietnam

This report is based on the country of Vietnam with respect to its socio-economic situation, measures of affordability, housing finance institutional framework, housing finance options for low-income groups etc...

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Shelter Afrique Final Report

Final report feasibility study on developing a social housing prepared by Shelter Afrique of May 2011. This study focused on three main areas of intervention for social housing. Expanding low-cost housing suppl...

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Vietnam – Urbanization Technical Assistance Report

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 – Real Estate and Mortgage

The issues related to real estate, tangible movable property, shares and financial instruments, claims and receivables, intellectual property, problem assets, commercial security, risk areas, the commercial deb...

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Vietnam – Incentives for Developing Low-Income Housing in Vietnam

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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Vietnam – Country Profile

The Vietnamese trace the origins of their culture and nation to the fertile plains of the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. After centuries of developing civilization and economy based on the cultivation of ...

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Thailand – Building the Legal and Regulatory Framework

Of all the requisite components of a market economy in transition and emerging countries, sound legal systems and institutions have been among the slowest to develop. In recognition of this fact, in August 1998...

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Thailand – Affordable Housing Delivery

Minimizing slums, squatter settlements and substandard housing are key objectives of most developing country governments, including Thailand. Pursuing and achieving these objectives requires that sufficient sup...