Framing the Debate — Public Subsidies

Development Innovations Group
To further understand how the poor have access to, receive, and implement funds for housing, this brief explores how subsidies provide and conflict with access to private financing through the following questions: 1) Should governments and private financial service providers agree to use housing microfinance as a particular vehicle for delivering subsidies? 2) What problems might be equalized or worsened? 3) How do they — or could they — team up without compromising missions?

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