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Guide pratique 8
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Number of pages
48
Publication date
2011
Publisher
UN-HABITAT

Guide pratique pour les Décideurs Politiques - Loger les Pauvres dans les Villes Africaines. 8: Les autorités locales. Faire face aux défis urbains d’une manière participative et intégrée - French Language Version

Le présent Guide pratique n° 8 donne un bref aperçu des autorités locales en Afrique et des défis (et opportunités) urbains auxquels ils doivent faire face. Le présent guide montre comment l’évolution physique, le développement économique et le développement social doivent se poursuivre de concert pour que les interventions soient efficaces et durables. Il décrit certains des outils que peuvent utiliser les autorités locales lorsqu’ils adoptent ces méthodes.

 

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Affordable Land and Housing in
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Number of pages
101
Publication date
2012
Publisher
UN-HABITAT

Affordable Land and Housing in Africa

In the vast majority of countries land and housing affordability is a critical contemporary challenge. While in different countries and regions the specificities of the challenge vary, the universal truism is that it is becoming increasing difficult for the vast majority of urban residents to obtain and retain adequate and affordable land and housing.

This series canvases the state of affordable land and housing in four regions facing major affordability difficulties: Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and Europe and North America (member countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). Each volume firstly explores the major trends in housing conditions, availability, quality and tenure modalities.

Following this, each volume analyses housing policy responses to address growing affordability problems and the improvement of substandard housing conditions. Lastly, key recommendations for local, national and international policy initiatives that can increase the provision of affordable housing in the respective regions is provided.

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volumen 2 procesos de planific
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Publication date
2014
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UN-Habitat

Vivienda para pueblos indígenas en ciudades capitales andinas

La presente publicación forma parte de la serie de investigaciones que ha impulsado el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos (ONU-Habitat) a nivel global, en el marco de la Estrategia Mundial de la Vivienda, que busca generar una reflexión sobre la situación de los pueblos indígenas que viven en las áreas urbanas, y que pretende contribuir a los análisis periódicos realizados por el Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de las Naciones Unidas, así como generar propuestas hacia la Tercera Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible (HABITAT III), que tendrá lugar en el 2016. Este estudio trae el debate a la Región de América Latina y el Caribe, región donde casi el 80% de la población vive en las ciudades, cuyo proceso de urbanización ha tenido unos ritmos decrecimiento acelerados y donde se conoce aún muy poco sobre la situación de los pueblos indígenas que viven en las áreas urbanas.

Incremental Housing – The new site & services - Reinhard Goethert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Informal builders provide the bulk of affordable housing and define large areas of our cities. Originally created for those long considered as poor and unable to house themselves, over time the resultant informal housing generally matches higher income standards. This incremental process has been adopted by governments into programmes called 'site and services', focusing on housing and land development, and embracing process as the key. A methodology to capture this process has been developed which offers a base for developing effective policies in supporting the incremental builders.

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Scaling-Up Affordable Housing Supply in Brazil

image024Since 2009, Brazil has been implementing an ambitious national social housing programme: the My House, My Life Programme (Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida). The Programme was designed to stimulate the production and acquisition of new housing units for the low- and low-middle income population. The initial goal was to contract 1 million housing units in the biennium 2009-2010.

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Fiji: National Urban Profile

image026The Fiji National Urban Profile consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

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Housing and Slum Upgrading

The Global Housing Strategy, mandated by Governing Council resolution 23/16, guides the programmatic work for Housing and Slum Upgrading area. It assists member States to analyze their housing policies and formulate housing strategies and interventions that are gender-responsive. The overall objective of Housing and Slum Upgrading area is to increase access to adequate housing, improve the standard of living in existing slums and curb the growth of new slums in an inclusive manner.

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