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Insightful Reports

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India: The innovative concept of rental housing

The Indian state of Odisha has decided to implement an innovative housing concept to help its urban poor in the state’s capital, Bhubaneshwar. The government will be making rental housing blocks and rent these out to the poor at INR 2000, thereby trying to prevent mushrooming of unreliable and informal […]

September 15, 2012

India: NHB targets INR 40 billion under Rural Housing Fund in FY 2013

NHB (National Housing Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India, India’s Central Bank, is targeting the disbursal of an amount of INR 40 billion under the Rural Housing Fund in the coming financial year. This is going to help the housing needs of rural India, most […]

September 15, 2012

India: Availability of credit major impediment in rural housing

According to Union Minister of State for Finance, Namo Narain Meena, one of the most important reasons why rural people have getting access to decent and affordable housing. A recent survey shows that about 66 per cent of the rural residents in the country use their own resources to build […]

September 15, 2012

Tunisia invites private sector to help rehouse poor

Social tensions that toppled the former regime last year have made the Tunisian authorities seek effective housing measures by ways of inviting private builders, to improve the situation of the poorer city dwellers living in huts. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Nicaragua: Government advances housing infrastructure

The government will now be helping those below the poverty line in Nicaragua have their own houses through an initiative which, in the words of Judith Silva, director of the Urban and Rural Housing Institute (Invur) ‘unites the will of different institutions’, both private and public, while also generate jobs. […]

September 15, 2012

UNDP targets route of inclusive governance to protect rights of informal slum dwellers

UNDP has launched a new programme at the World Urban Forum in Naples, which will campaign for better and more inclusive urban governance to fight for the rights of urban slum dwellers, who are forever vulnerable to evictions and exploitation. Read more here and here.

September 15, 2012

India: Hiranandani submits plan to build 3000 low cost houses

The Hiranandani group, after problems with the law regarding building of urban luxury houses instead of low cost ones will now be building 3000 low cost houses for the government, to house the poor in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Mexvi houses for Mexico’s base of the pyramid

In Mexico, most people work in factories, or in farms, or both. They build their houses brick by brick over a period of several years, as and when they have some cash to spare. Mexvi is a new company whose innovation lies in the fact that it can build a […]

September 15, 2012

Better housing for the poor tested in South America

A UK-Latin American engineering collaboration is soon going to result in the building of housing prototypes for the impoverished in Brazil and Ecuador. The tests will lead to design innovations which will make houses safer and more durable for the poor underserved population of South America. Read more here.