The enabling approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and … households are forced to use informal mechanisms to access housing, such as purchasing land in illegal subdivisions or squatting … housing construction undertaken by poor households through an enabling approach can make a signifi cant contribution to …

growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two … been accompanied by an increase in urban poverty levels.Abstract: Las áreas centrales de una ciudad contienen una mezcla de ….3 billion people live in urban areas. This significant increase in urban population has resulted from both natural population …

The enabling approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and … households are forced to use informal mechanisms to access housing, such as purchasing land in illegal subdivisions or squatting … housing construction undertaken by poor households through an enabling approach can make a signifi cant contribution to …

co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement …This document analyses the experience of community participation and sustainability in the Local Development Programme …

is of interest to specialists in social and urban development, as well as to those who define the policies and design the …-American Development Bank and their technical and managerial counterparts in the agencies that execute the loans granted for neighbourhood …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to … the sectors of society, and more open and transparent processes are essential to sustaining development. …

proposes and implements a replicable methodology for a comparative cost analysis of three similar poverty alleviation programs …

health for households in Uruguay. Titling could improve health outcomes through various channels: housing investment, income … (hypertension, diabetes, sinusitis and rheumatism) but could not find supporting evidence for the housing channel. …

drug-related homicides on housing prices. Using an unusually rich dataset that provides national coverage on housing prices … poor. An increase in homicides equivalent to one standard deviation leads to a 3 percent decrease in low-income housing … prices. Moreover, the effect on housing prices of long-term increases in crime is 40 percent larger. …

countries. This study reviews the housing conditions of urban households in urban Latin America and the Caribbean and its … comprise 95 percent of the urban population of the region, show reductions in the proportion of urban households facing housing …. Despite these optimistic findings, the number of households facing different deprivations of housing services is still …