Refugees require assistance for basic needs like housing but local host communities may feel excluded from that assistance, potentially affecting community relations. This study experimentally evaluates...
The WBG's mission is to work across the housing value chain to enable and deepen the market. For more than 30 years, IFC has supported the expansion of residential mortgage lending and affordable housing...
The World Bank Group hosted the 9th Global Affordable Housing Conference in Washington DC from May 31 to June 2, 2023. The conference featured 67 high level speakers from around the world who contributed...
The inability to afford a decent shelter has a detrimental effect on people’s lives, their well-being and productivity, and the broader economy. Given the pervasiveness of the problem on a global scale...
Despite the relevance of house prices for a variety of stakeholders as well as for macroeconomic and monetary policy making, reliable, publicly available house price data are largely absent in emerging...
Anecdotal studies have highlighted the recent rapid growth of so-called affordable housing finance companies across India. These new lenders are reported to be using a high-touch approach common to microfinance...
The focus of this paper is on the demand for housing in urban India. Using rental data, the paper finds that income elasticities of housing demand are high and elastic across time. Hedonic pricing regressions...
The Kingdom of Morocco is undergoing urbanization on a massive scale, which is expected to continue and expand in the coming years. Even if the annual growth rate of the Moroccan population is declining...
The development objective of the Improving Access to Affordable Housing Project for Mexico is to increase access to affordable housing for low-income beneficiaries. The project comprises of three components...
The revised project development objective for the Housing Finance Project of Tanzania is to facilitate the development of the housing finance market through the provision of medium and long-term liquidity...