Affordable and adequate housing is a problem for “Us”-not for “Them”.

   Slums represent a market! 40% of the world’s population need new housing in the coming 25 years. Progress creates poverty through constraints on the access to land. Urban poor do not automatically benefit from the social and economic progress to which they provide a crucial contribution. Each third city inhabitant has inadequate housing, because the adequate is unaffordable. And the poor pay relatively more for less. Slums also represent a market failure!

 This website is a Tool for bringing the core actors together, sharing the latest and most relevant information, preparing the Dialogues for the Stockholm Seminar, and exchanging views and experiences through the Forum.

A Chain of Links need to be developed between the local market needs and the housing finance that is getting global. Click at the links in the chain below to get more information on the Land Administration Chain.  

Thirty years of experience is out there to be tapped trough a well-prepared dialogue between actors prone to assume responsibility for their link in the chain, and understand how to connect to the other links. You can see the Programme and the five themes for the Dialogues by navigating on this site. The Dialogues will address the issue of Property Rights and its connection to financial conditions, pro-poor management Practices and tools, Reinventing Planning, how to link the various Financial Sources and how to expand the outreach and Access to Finance.

Each Dialogue is structured in a number of key issues. You can easily access the Inputs to each Dialogue. To contribute, you will need a password from the Project Management. Please register as participant to the preparations.

Access to reliable, transparent and validated information is essential. Such institutional capacity need a clear ownership to be sustainable. Under Country-based information you can find the current structureof the Chain of Links and more basic information on the national level.

A strongly growing need for harmonisation and uniform practices in real estate economics requires standards, information and guidance for best practices combined with people with good knowledge and know-how of different systems around the world.

It is the ‘institutional’ rather than ‘technical’ obstacles that present the biggest barriers. For example, different policies for pricing and licensing make ‘easy’ access to spatial data a major challenge. Not to mention the small print in the housing loan agreements and the multitude of financial instruments, and…

Connect to this network, take part of the latest news and a let us take a step forward in providing Just and Sustainable Shelter- for all! Contacts can be sought both with the Project organization and with the other registered participants.