Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyzes housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent policy developments in the area of shelter finance are…

Sans des institutions locales fortes et un personnel motivé, la réforme de la décentralisation et des établissements humains ne donnera pas les résultats escomptés en matière de développement.

This publication was released to mark the theme of World Habitat Day 2004 - Cities: engines of rural development - and in support of the UN-HABITAT conference on Urban-Rural Linkages Approach to Development, 1-4 October 2004.

Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and housing Corporation (CMHC) Series No. 1