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This guide is part of a series that draws upon UNCHS (Habitat's) experience in the field of post disaster management and local governance. It provides a resource tool for local authorities to...
Former Yugoslav socialist countries acknowledged the social impact of housing. Prioritising collective rights over individual ones, they considered housing and property as a social good rather...
India is home to over 1. 1 billion people. With about one in every sixth person housing assumes significant importance. The objective of this report is to trace the evolution of the Indian housing...
Over the past decade, the world has witnessed growing threats to the safety and security of cities and towns. Some have come in the form of catastrophic events, while others have been...
The report examines the constraints in the housing market beginning with a brief overview of the formal financial sector and the cooperative and micro financial institutions of Indonesia. It shows...
The UN-HABITAT assistance to displaced population is part of the joint inter agency efforts ongoing in several cities in the Somali region. The upgrading of the existing settlements'...
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of various innovations and instruments in low and moderate incomes housing. It focuses on the issue of affordability, accessibility and sustainability...
This is a joint publication of UN-HABITAT and the Directorate of Urban Administration & Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh and analyses status of community toilet in terms of its...
This paper explores the impacts of economic, cultural and political globalization processes on urban Africa. It identifies changing globalization trends, explores the impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa...
This publication aims at developing conceptual framework for rural shelter policy which takes into account several issues which are currently important in development, namely, poverty reduction,...