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October 12, 2012
Uganda: New housing policy to serve 4 million launched
Uganda has a scarcity of 105,454 housing stock in urban areas, and 505,091 housing stock in rural areas, and with the current annual production of housing units, there is a shortfall of 120,000 units per year. To address this need, the government of Uganda is in the final stages of […]
October 12, 2012
HFHI and MasterCard to assist Africa’s homeless
Habitat for Humanity International and the MasterCard Foundation are collectively launching a US$6.6 million five year long partnership which is aimed at expanding microfinance services for housing the poor, improving homes of the poor and more in three Africa countries. Read more here.
October 12, 2012
A fund to give the poor a direct control over development spending in cities
The Urban Poor Fund International is a fund that lets the poor makes decisions about developmental spending in urban settings. It was launched in 2007 by the SDI or the Shack/Slum Dwellers International, a network of community based groups in 33 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and has […]
October 12, 2012
The Equitas Bird’ Nest Programme in Chennai
This post talks about a programme which aimed at helping the poor pavement dwellers of Chennai who usually subsisted on begging and other forms of handouts. The programme failed an initial hiccup as the pavement dwellers refused to move into housing units afraid to lose their earnings, and the programme […]
October 12, 2012
India: The paradox of urban housing in India
Even as a huge shortage exists in urban India in terms of housing units for the urban poor – that of 18.67 million houses, there is an interesting phenomenon to note – there are as many as 11.09 million housing units lying vacant, and this latter number is growing. Read […]
October 12, 2012
India: Half of Delhi’s population lives in slums
The capital of India – Delhi has a population of about 18 million. According to a note filed before the Supreme Court on management of municipal solid waste, about half of Delhi’s population lives in unauthorized colonies, slums and shacks, which lack and basic civic amenities. Read more here.
October 12, 2012
UN expert on housing – “Fewer housing opportunities for the world’s poor”
Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on housing, said that the housing support in the world today is more housing finance oriented, which is not a correct solution for the world’s homeless poor. She commented that the global policies regarding housing were mostly unhelpful for the poor and should be […]
October 12, 2012
India: The ‘Jan Satyagraha’, or the silent march
Encouraged by the NGO Ekta Prishad, as many as 30,000 poor, discontented landless people, representing people from 26 states of India, marched from Gwalior to Delhi to protest against the poor land reform policy in the nation which overlooks the rights and privileges of the poor. While a number of […]
October 12, 2012
Nigeria: 60 per cent of Nigerians homeless
In Nigeria, as many as 60 per cent of the total population is homeless. According to Adekunle Abdulrazaq Oyinloye, MD/CEO, Infrastructure Bank Plc, this is due to poor housing quality, inadequate infrastructure and poor level of government attention and strategy. Read more here.
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