on next steps for the National Housing Program (NHP). These recommendations and policy analysis are an elaboration of the … framework for housing policy reform in urban areas in Egypt, a draft of which was endorsed by the Ministry of Housing, Utilities … 2007. The Framework, an evolving strategy building blocks document, proposed a set of comprehensive housing sector reforms …

), which uses household data surveyed in December 2006 and yields results on the housing demand and household characteristics …, entitled analysis of housing supply mechanisms (World Bank), analyzes the situation of housing supply in urban areas in Egypt …, including the study of existing formal and informal mechanisms for the delivery of urban housing, the institutions responsible …

The objective of this study, requested by the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development, is to assist the … government of Egypt in: formulating a coherent national affordable housing strategy which puts in place an effective … institutional and regulatory framework that creates the necessary conditions for an efficiently functioning housing market, devises …

This note provides a short overview of urban land and housing market performance in Punjab Province of Pakistan. It … describes the characteristics of well-functioning urban land and housing markets and argues that, at present, the Punjab's urban … land and housing markets are not performing well. The paper identifies a range of structural and institutional shortcomings …

Bulgaria's housing sector provides a window into the broader issues of the country's social, and economic … been the housing sector. While the government has played an active role in reforming the housing sector since 2004, and … rates are extremely high, affordability concerns have intensified, and household mobility is one of the lowest among …