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Publications

A Literature Review on Housing Finance Development in Sub-Saharan Africa [1]
May 2007. Mary R. Tomlinson. FinMark Trust.
A Report on Low Income Housing in India: Challenges and Opportunities for Microfinance (224KB .pdf) [2]
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 [3]
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 [4] .
Building the Homes of the Poor – One Brick at a Time: Housing Improvement Lending at Mibanco (426KB .pdf) [5]
January 2003. Warren Brown. ACCION International: Insight #4.
Capitalizing on the Strength of Community Organizations (664KB .pdf) [6]
October 2007. Russell Danao Schroeder. Habitat for Humanity.
The Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility [7]
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 [8]
May 2007. ACCION International and Cities Alliance.
The Enabling Environment for Housing Microfinance in Kenya [9]
April 2003. Cities Alliance: Shelter Finance for the Poor Series.
Developing Housing Microfinance Products in Central America (224KB .pdf) [10]
August 2004. Richard Shumann. ACCION International: Insight #12.
FUNHAVI’s Housing Microfinance program in Mexico [11]
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) [12]
May 2007. Nino Mesarina and Christy Stickney. ACCION International: Insight #21.
Housing Finance in East Asia [13]
December 2006. Loïc Chiquier. The World Bank.
Housing for All: Essential to Economic, Social, and Civic Development (594KB .pdf) [14]
June 2006. Prepared by PADCO in collaboration with the International Housing Coalition.
Housing Microfinance: A Guide to Practice (108KB .pdf) [15]
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” [16]
June 2006. Stephanie Schmidt with Valeria Budinich. Ashoka.
SEWA Bank’s Housing Microfinance Program in India [17]
November 2002. Cities Alliance: Shelter Finance for the Poor Series.
Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending (2MB .pdf) [18]
2006. Robert M. Buckley and Jerry Kalarickal. The World Bank.

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