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

   This website is a Tool for the core actors needed to develop functioning markets for Housing and Finance to continue working together. 

The role of Housing Finance in alleviating urban poverty needs further attention from Housing Finance actors and experts, as well as from the land professionals and the financial sector in general. In reality we all belong to a global, but obscure, market for financial services and for our housing. Quite a limited group of experts is involved today, still mainly working from the national level perspective. One third of the urban population has no access to these markets, and consequently no adequate housing that is affordable. It is a problem for “us”, not just for “them”, since well functioning cities are the engine for all our development.

The website provides two functions:
-    Sharing experiences on Best Practices and Lessons learned in Land Administration and Financial Mechanisms towards a just and sustainable shelter- for all.
-    Providing Contacts with actors in the field
For access, just click at each headline in the Navigation list to the left.

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

Housing finance for all need to move out of the “charity corner”! The scope and actors should be broadened from “just” a donor- poor peoples concern. New perspectives should be brought forward in an inclusive and genuine dialogue. The work has started. The outputs from the Dialogues at the Stockholm Seminar create a new and shared platform for the continued work. For access, just click at each headline in the Navigation list to the left: 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.