This report examines urbanization rates in Tanzania and its impacts on housing provision.

In the past fifty years, there has been an unprecedented increase in urban population which directly translates into a mushrooming of slums worldwide.

This publication is an evaluation housing finance mechanisms in Republic of Korea.

The publication is a toolkit specifically prepared to help local authorities raise internal and external resources to finance implementation of priority projects and programmes.

Social Investment Funds have been a favoured instrument of International Finance Institutes for more than twenty years.

The Community Development Fund in Thailand has showed to be a very powerful development tool to address urban poverty and affordable housing at a national scale.

This Guide to Municipal Finance describes the current issues in municipal finance and the ways in which local governments finance services and infrastructure.

This report examines one of the main innovations and trends in community-based housing finance initiatives - the Community Mortgage Programme in Philippines.

This report evaluates the housing finance mechanism in Chile, with special attention to the issues of affordability, efficiency, effectiveness and stability.