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This report provides a comprehensive review of the challenges for low and moderate income housing. It focuses on the issues of affordability, accessibility and sustainability in resolving the...
This report reviews the housing finance mechanisms and instruments in Bolivia. It consists of six parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the political, macro-economic and financial sector and its...
This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...
This resource book identifies effective solutions that can be undertaken by local governments for improving the quality of life for elderly and disabled people in human settlements. Its aim is to...
UN Habitat has been involved in the design and implementation of subsidy based strategies at all stages of post crisis shelter and housing recovery from emergency to reconstruction and in conflict...
While there is little information on the availability of cyclone shelters prior to cyclone Nargis, a total of 358 cyclone-resistant community buildings (includes completed, under construction and...
Interlocking Stabilised Soil Block (ISSB) technology has been gaining recognition, particularly in East Africa. This material and method of construction has the advantages of low cost and minimal...
Shelter Projects 2010 is the third annual compilation of shelter programmes. This book contains summaries of shelter projects that have been implemented in response to conflicts, complex...
By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2009, 335 reported natural disasters killed over 10, 000...
This joint OHCHR/UN-Habitat Fact Sheet is the second in a series of joint publications by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with other United Nations partners to...