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February 1, 2013
Ghana: SADA launches rural housing programme
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is all set to launch a new and improved housing programme for the NSEZ or the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone. Read more here.
February 1, 2013
Housing microfinance – how scale is a persistent problem
While the need for housing microfinance is great, given the rapid rate of urbanization in most developing countries, housing microfinance have not been able to find a balance between adequately serving need and bringing about developmental changes yet. Read more here.
February 1, 2013
Moladi: Innovation in housing for the base of the pyramid
This post talks about the need for decent and affordable housing to poor communities, termed as Moladi by Dr. Ernst Friedrich Schumacher. It takes into consideration Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” pyramid to integrate housing with other human needs. Moladi is also the name of an affordable housing solution which […]
February 1, 2013
Egypt’s housing crisis exacerbates as housing remains in abundance
Almost 16 million people live in Egypt’s slums, mostly in greater Cairo metropolitan area. The residents of most of these slums are people who cannot afford to live in proper housing due to high and prohibitive prices. These slums have no basic amenities and provide no respite from the heat, […]
February 1, 2013
Slum rehabilitation promise to Mumbai’s 20 million
Mumbai is home to some of the largest slums in India. While plans to deal with informal settlements, which house about 60 per cent of the population, have gone from simple informal settlement vacating, to integrating into public infrastructure, nothing seems to be clear. Ambitious plans of providing education, healthcare, […]
February 1, 2013
The Tokyo Model: From post-war slum to super power
Tokyo, Japan was really a post war slum which evolved into an organized and prosperous urban structure over time. In a recent addition to Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues, Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava discuss how principles of user involvement, incremental development and integration of neighbourhoods into a large urban […]
February 1, 2013
INR 200 million meant for night shelters in Delhi siphoned off
Delhi, the Indian capital which suffers from some of the lowest temperatures during winter has so far been unable to provide shelter for its poor homeless. According to reports, some INR 200 million earmarked for a 20-year long programme entailing the establishment of night shelters and welfare assistance to the […]
February 1, 2013
The rise of the megacities
The developing world will house 29 megacities by 2025, according to UN forecasts. This interactive graph by The Guardian shows how there are at least 23 megacities (cities with population of more than 10 million) across the world that will continue to grow regardless of whether problems of informal settlements […]
February 1, 2013
India: Co-operative banks step forth to solve India’s housing crisis
In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, co-operative banks have stepped forth to support the housing problem in the state. In effect, in Bhopal District Co-operative Central Bank signed an MoU with a state-level housing mission. Read more here.
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