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Publication date
2008
Publisher
UN-Habitat

Quick Guides for Policy Makers - Housing the Poor in Asian Cities. 5: Housing Finance. Ways to help the poor pay for housing

This Quick Guide introduces some of the key concepts of formal housing finance and an overview of how both the formal and informal systems of delivering housing finance work especially with regard to the urban poor.

The guide provides insights to innovative ways in affordable housing finance for the urban poor living in Asia’s cities.