Affordability Housing in UNECE Region Report Outcomes The report aimed to review affordability housing in UNECE challenges from two perspectives: • Country perception of the affordability of housing situation •...
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Slums in Casablanca: Assessment of the VSB program, case study: Er-hamna Slum The Cities Without Slums Program (VSBP) is Morocco’s most well-known slum clearance initiative. It was established in 2004 on ...
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Assessing Housing Approaches for Iraq Iraq is facing a housing shortage of around 1.0 million housing units, which is equivalent to around 25% of its current housing stock. At the same time, it suffers from hav...
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Housing Pathways of the “Missing People” of Public Housing and Resettlement Programs This article deals with methodological challenges and presents solutions for the study of people who depart from ...
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When a patio becomes a city: (In)volution of Carrières Centrales, Casablanca In the 1950s, the city of Casablanca experienced enormous demographic growth. Having become a strategic port during the French protec...
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Slums from Space—15 Years of Slum Mapping Using Remote Sensing The body of scientific literature on slum mapping employing remote sensing methods has increased since the availability of more very-high-resolutio...
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What works in improving the living conditions of slum dwellers About 1 billion people currently live in slum settlements – almost a third of the world’s urban population – and this could increase to 3 billion b...
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Evaluation of Slum Upgrading Programs Literature Review and Methodological Approaches This technical note analyzes the methodologies used to evaluate neighborhood slum upgrading programs, describes their result...
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Incremental Housing: A Short History of an Idea Access to adequate housing is one of the critical challenges arising from the rapid urbanization that will take place in the coming decades. The shared vision for...
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Detecting Slums from SPOT Data in Casablanca Morocco Using an Object-Based Approach Casablanca, Morocco’s economic capital continues today to fight against the proliferation of informal settlements affecting it...
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Solving the affordable housing crisis In recent years, the affordable housing market has been squeezed between a rock and a hard place. Housing needs have increased in most of the EU’s urban areas. Meanwhile, t...
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Comparing The Governance of Large Housing Estates in Estonia, Germany, and Russia This report summarizes the findings of the Work Package 2, “Governance Analysis,” of the comparative research project “Estates A...
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Public Housing Production in Turkey within the Framework of Sustainable Urban Development and Construction It is difficult to say that the existing public housing applications put forward as a solution to the h...
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Barriers to Undertaking Green Building Projects in Developing Countries Green buildings (GBs) are important in achieving sustainable development goals. However, the implementation of green technologies in build...
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Housing policies in Rwanda Riding the urbanisation whirlwind Rwanda is the second most densely populated country in Africa, with one of the continent’s lowest urbanization rates; moreover, the average farm size...
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National Overview of the Housing Market in Fiji This paper provides an overview of the housing market in Fiji. The research would look into the development in the housing market over the last five years, housin...
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Improvement of Low-Cost Housing in Fiji to Withstand Hurricanes and Earthquakes In 1980 the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation (SPEC), in response to the disaster threats in Fiji as well as other Pac...
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Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing Saving energy through energy efficiency improvements can cost less than generating, transmitting, and distributing energy from power plants, and provides multiple economi...
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Contribution of Project Management Knowledge Areas on the Performance of Affordable Housing Projects The research aimed to scrutinize the contribution of project management knowledge areas on the performance of...
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The role of Rwanda Development Bank (RDB) in overcoming housing challenges in Kigali This study was carried out to find out the contribution of the Rwanda Development Bank (RDB) to fixing housing problems in Ki...
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Delivering low-income housing in Rwanda The government is already committed to promoting urban densification, climate resiliency, connectivity within and between cities, and an inclusive and participatory urban...