This report presents UN-HABITAT's main achievements in 2010.

The report arises out of special session on the global financial crisis organised by UN-HABITAT in 2008.

Rental housing has remained a neglected area of national housing policy which has instead focused, often exclusively, on promoting home ownership.

This Policy Guide provides policy-makers with the necessary knowledge about the challenges and rights of Indigenous peoples in relation to land and property in the urban context.

This Quick Guide proposes a range of policy and action frameworks that can steer urban development in positive directions, using the resources of knowledge and experience that exist within urban communities across Africa.

This Quick Guide 2 describes several ways of addressing low-income housing in African cities at the programme and project level.

This Quick Guide 3 looks at the different forms of land tenure which operate in African cities and examines some of the problems and benefits of these different land tenure systems.

This Quick Guide 4 explores how communities facing eviction have organized themselves, and drawn on the support of community-based networks and institutions in Africa and globally to find alternatives to the destruction of their settlements.

The objective of this Quick Guide is to introduce some of the key concepts of housing finance and to provide a quick overview of how a housing finance system works.