The real estate credit system used in Brazil for residential housing (known as the Housing Finance System-SFH), was created in 1964.

The need to provide adequate, suitable and equitable housing has remained a major priority of every government. Even though housing is a basic necessity of life, more than half of the population in Ghana live in poor houses where they have no access to adequate sanitary facilities, water and warmth to meet their daily physical needs.

The material originates from an international Expert Group Meeting on Urban Indigenous Peoples and Migration held in Santiago, Chile, March 27-29, 2007.

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.

The publication presents five experiences about housing, local economic development, management of solid waste in Latin American Countries, youth and citizen participation in five cities of Latin America.

Parliamentarians are very important and vibrant partners of UN-HABITAT in promoting sustainable housing and urban development.

This training course from the Global Land Tool Network is part of the Network’s activities on Islamic dimensions of land.

If all estimated 400,000 families currently displaced in Darfur return to their places of origin and reconstruct their destroyed homes utilizing the traditional building practices, with wood as the main structural element, they will need to find and cut an estimated 16 million mature trees.