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A Literature Review on Housing Finance Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 2007. Mary R. Tomlinson. FinMark Trust.
A Report on Low Income Housing in India: Challenges and Opportunities for Microfinance (224KB .pdf)
June 2007. Centre for Microfinance at the Institute for Financial Management and Research and Habitat for Humanity India.
Access to Housing Finance in Africa: Exploring the Issues in Zambia
May 2007. David Gardner with input from Kecia Rust. FinMark Trust. Comments and contributions can be sent to the FinMark Trust’s Housing Finance Theme Champion, Kecia Rust on Kecia@iafrica.com .
Building the Homes of the Poor – One Brick at a Time: Housing Improvement Lending at Mibanco (426KB .pdf)
January 2003. Warren Brown. ACCION International: Insight #4.
Capitalizing on the Strength of Community Organizations (664KB .pdf)
October 2007. Russell Danao Schroeder. Habitat for Humanity.
The Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility
May 2005. Malcom Jack and Ian Morris of Homeless International. International Association of Local and Regional Development Funds in Emerging Markets.
A Comparison of Housing Finance Programs for Low Income People in Peru
May 2007. ACCION International and Cities Alliance.
The Enabling Environment for Housing Microfinance in Kenya
April 2003. Cities Alliance: Shelter Finance for the Poor Series.
Developing Housing Microfinance Products in Central America (224KB .pdf)
August 2004. Richard Shumann. ACCION International: Insight #12.
FUNHAVI’s Housing Microfinance program in Mexico
November 2002. Cities Alliance: Shelter Finance for the Poor Series.
Getting to Scale in Housing Microfinance: A Study of ACCION Partners in Latin America (399KB .pdf)
May 2007. Nino Mesarina and Christy Stickney. ACCION International: Insight #21.
Housing Finance in East Asia
December 2006. Loïc Chiquier. The World Bank.
Housing for All: Essential to Economic, Social, and Civic Development (594KB .pdf)
June 2006. Prepared by PADCO in collaboration with the International Housing Coalition.
Housing Microfinance: A Guide to Practice (108KB .pdf)
January 2004. Franck Daphnis and Bruce Ferguson. Kumarian Press.
Housing the Poor by Engaging the Private and Citizen Sectors: Social Innovations and “Hybrid Value Chains”
June 2006. Stephanie Schmidt with Valeria Budinich. Ashoka.
SEWA Bank’s Housing Microfinance Program in India
November 2002. Cities Alliance: Shelter Finance for the Poor Series.
Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending (2MB .pdf)
2006. Robert M. Buckley and Jerry Kalarickal. The World Bank.
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CGAP Housing Finance Framing the Debate Papers
FinMark Trust Financial Diaries with Conclusions on Housing
International Housing Coalition Publications
International Institute for Environment and Development: HiFi Newsletters
Settlements Information Network Africa Special Edition newsletter
Wharton School of Business International Housing Finance Resources
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