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January 7, 2013
Kenya plans housing units for low income earners
The NHC or the National Housing Corporation is planning to include smaller homes as the State-owned firm targets low income earners by making houses worth Sh 2 million. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Kenya: Housing minister launches nationwide slum upgrading programme
Housing Minister of Kenya, Mr Soita Shitanda recently announced a nationwide launch of slum upgrading programme, asking slum dwellers to prepare themselves for it. This programme will help the country achieve low cost and decent housing for all by 2030. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Low cost eco-friendly homes in Vietnam
The cost of accessing housing has gone up by 10 times in the last decade, according to award winning architects Vo Trong Nghia Architects, prompting them to explore the making of low cost and eco friendly houses for the poor. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Uganda: Low cost housing remains a dream
This post delineates the problems being faced by Uganda in terms of housing units’ shortage. With a population growth of 3.4 per cent annually, and an urbanization rate of 5.6 per cent annually, and an existing housing units shortage of 1.6 million, Uganda’s low cost housing for all dream is […]
January 7, 2013
The theory of “Aspirers” in urban India
This post cites off the severe shortage of housing units in the country. There is a total shortfall of 26.53 million in urban India, and of every 100 households only 3 are made of concrete. This breeds a class of ‘Aspirers’, those whose houses aren’t make of concrete, and are […]
January 7, 2013
India: Bribe, the key factor disincentivising low-cost housing
There is a reason why low cost housing providers are not that interested in doing their job – there is an equal amount of paperwork involved in making low cost houses, as in making premium houses, and paperwork in India means bribing. Once bribes enter the picture, costs go up […]
January 7, 2013
India: Banks not helping to implement rural housing scheme in Maharashtra
According to the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, the nationalized banks given the responsibility of being the lending arm in helping poor leverage the benefits of Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme in Maharashtra, have not been cooperating. In rural India, proper housing is still an issue. Read […]
January 7, 2013
A day in the economic life of Africa’s biggest slum
Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya, can be called Africa’s biggest slum. It has more than a million residents, a lack of government presence, and provision of no basic services. Wedged between embassies and a well-tended golf course, it survives on its own. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Unitus Seed Fund lands US$8 million for BoP startups
The USF, or the Unitus Seed Fund has recently secured an amount of US$8 million through investment commitments to back its seed stage venture capital funding, for its “BoP Startups” accelerating plan. Under this plan, BoP startups catering to the sectors of economic self-reliance, education, and basic necessities of low […]
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