With the projected increases in slum population, the demand for urban upgrading interventions is expected to grow. The main aim of this study was to seek a noble effort to reduce the proliferation of informal s...
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Housing affordability can be broadly defined as the ability of households to buy or rent adequate housing, without impairing their ability to meet basic living costs. Yet the reality is more complex, both in te...
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As the Biden administration embarks on its first 100 days, multiple urgent national crises demand its attention and action. By Inauguration Day, the unchecked COVID-19 pandemic had infected over 25 million peop...
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Despite the growing attention given to community-based initiatives in the delivery of public services, little is known about their durability. This article focuses on Dutch community enterprises (CEs) as an eme...
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Housing is one of the larger BOP markets—larger than transportation, smaller than energy. The market encompasses major spending items—rent, mortgage payments (or imputed rents), and repairs and other services. ...
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Primary mortgage market in Uganda: IFC’s Uganda Primary Mortgage Market Initiative (UPMMI) is a three-year advisory services program that aims to foster the largescale development of the primary mortgage market...
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India is on the verge of a historic change. Known as the country that lives in its villages, it stares at an opposite scenario. In the near future, more people will inhabit the country’s urban areas than ...
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The global environmental change (GEC)-cities nexus has been one of START’s primary thematic focus areas for knowledge development in recent years, especially in Asia. In 2013, our prioritized ramping up its kno...
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The paper reflects on the link between infectious diseases and urbanization in a typical West African city. It contends that urbanization in Africa has proceeded at an alarming rate without due consideration of...
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Urbanization – the spatial concentration of people and economic activity·is arguably the most important social transformation in the history of civilization since man changed from being a nomadic hunter-g...
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Pakistan has the highest rate of urbanization in South Asia. According to the 2017 Population Census, 36.4 percent of the population lives in urban areas. In 1998, this gure stood at 32.5 percent. Other estimat...
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Over the last 100 years, the world’s urban population has grown more than tenfold, and now close to half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Many aspects of urban change are unprecedented, including no...
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Rwanda has a developing housing and housing finance sector – but there are constraints. While Rwanda’s mortgage-to-GDP ratio (3,35 percent) is relatively high for the region, mortgage lending is concentrated at...
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Recent South African and international evidence highlights the broad and lasting impacts of households, particularly those on low income, when unable to afford higher-income counterparts to live in apartments, ...
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A deep understanding of housing and travel demands and respective costs based on residential location choice is the most important decision that reflects the behavior of a household. This article aims to analyz...
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The actualization of affordable housing remains a challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by the increasing societal demand for the incorporation of sustainability principles into such housing types to improve...
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Governments or organizations devise an affordable housing strategy providing decent and affordable housing to the people. This paper discusses the strategy devised for the city of Abbotsford. Affordable housing...
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The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing program ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions of people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survive the unexpected a...
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Cities continue to grapple with a rising demand for housing, which affects affordability and the well-being of its citizens. This growth continues to put pressure on the delivery of adequate, affordable housing...
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The construction industry is in a quest for low-cost eco-friendly materials with very good properties required for building construction such as Agrostone. It is made of magnesium oxychloride cement and fillers...