Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Thailand : Stability in Affordable Housing Markets

This presentation is based on growth with stability in affordable housing markets and policy framework, institutional infrastructure and regulatory environment with focus on affordability prepared by Government...

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Thailand: Global Housing Finance After the Crisis

This presentation is based on the role of the Real Estate Market Observatory, in Thailand during the financial crisis of 2008. The presentation shows the impact of the crises on the Thai economy and banking sec...

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Thailand: Low – Income Housing Development

This presentation is about Thailand’s National Housing Policy, the National Housing Authority’s launching of a one million housing program, and the initiation of projects like the Baan Eua Ar-Thon Project, and ...

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Annual Report 2011 National Housing Authority of Thailand

The document of Annual Report 2011 of  National Housing Authority of Thailand. National Housing Authority, a state enterprise under the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, was established on Febr...

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NHA’s low-income Housing Delivery Role in the Greater Bangkok Region

The document on NHA’s low-income housing delivery role in the Greater Bangkok Region. The low-income housing projects’ main goals are to provide affordable, safe, secure, accessible work and services (both publ...

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Asia Pacific : Housing Journal 2012

Currently, one-third of developing-world urban people live in slums. UN-HABITAT estimates that in 2005, more than half of the world’s slum population lived in Asia, followed by sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America...

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Thailand: Pro-Poor Housing Finance

This document is a country report on Thailand and a  detailed report on pro-poor housing finance. More than 36% of Thais live in urban areas. Urbanization is not a recent phenomenon in Thailand. Urban and rural...

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Thailand: Household Sector and Monetary Policy Implications

This document is the study of Thailand’s housing finance, its central bank’s monetary, and the implication of monitory policy on the housing finance sector. Monitoring house price inflation and the build-up of ...

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Thailand: Affordable Housing Delivery

The document is based on affordable housing delivery in Thailand. Minimizing slums, squatter settlements, and substandard housing are key objectives of most developing country governments, including Thailand. P...

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Thailand – Country Profile

Agenda 21, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, underscored the important role that States play in the implementation of the agenda at the n...

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Thailand: A Tool for Poverty Reduction and Affordable Housing

This document is detailing how the Community Development fund in Thailand and other Asian countries has helped understand that addressing urban poverty and affordable housing at a national scale can be a very p...

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Indonesia: The Evolution of Housing Finance

This document is based on innovative responses to opportunities available and arising in Indonesia in the evolution of housing finance there. Indonesia has been a late starter in the development of a modern hou...

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Mortgage Market in Indonesia

This presentation is based on the mortgage market in Indonesia. It presents the issues of the economic outlook of Indonesia, the primary mortgage market in Indonesia, and the secondary mortgage market in Indone...

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Housing in Indonesia: Expanding Access, Improving Efficiency

The objective of the report is to take stock of trends and challenges in the housing sector. It reviews opportunities and constraints for the sector, as well as the current policies in place to deal with land a...

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Indonesia: SMF Role in the Housing Finance Industry

This presentation gives brief information about Indonesia’s government-owned mortgage financer SMF. It also gives information about mortgage activities in the country and its securitization program.  

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Indonesia: Proposed Senior Loans Housing Finance Program

Compared to global and regional standards, Indonesia’s financial sector is underdeveloped. The size of the finance sector is equivalent to only slightly more than 100% of gross domestic product (GDP), which is ...

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Non-Conventional Housing Finance for Indonesia

The document states that the lack of finance has long been held as an obvious and major reason why the poor cannot afford to house. Despite a number of attempts to find an alternative, housing finance remains t...

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Indonesia’s Housing Policies and Programs

The presentation is about Indonesia’s housing challenges, opportunities, policy reforms, and steps taken for strengthening the primary market.    

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The Contribution of Construction Industry to Economy of Indonesia

The document about the construction industry’s significant contributions in terms of scale and share in the development process for both developed and developing countries. The construction products provide the...

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Housing Finance in Indonesia Asia Pacific Union of Housing Finance International Conference New Delhi, Jan 30th – 31st, 2012

The presentation about the housing finance market and housing finance providers (SMF) in Indonesia.  

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World Housing Encyclopedia Report

Unreinforced Clay Brick Masonry (UCB) housing construction is still often found in rural areas of Indonesia. This is a single-story building and the main load-bearing structure in these buildings consists of br...