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Sustainable development of human settlements : achievements and challenges in housing and urban policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
(UN ECLAC, 2011-09-06)
Examines aspects such as urban management and equity; managing urban land; the provision of housing and housing technology; environmental management and infrastructure; and sustainable development of human settlements.
Urban land reform: How does it help the poor? Examples from Trinidad and Indonesia.
(International Symposium: The Urban Challenge of Developing Nations, 2011-09-06)
The hypothesis of this paper is that land tenure in Third World countries is regulated by socio-political institutions rather than the market. It argues, that land reform has to start from a knowledge of local conditions ...
Incremental construction: a strategy to facilitate access to housing
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2008)
The "enabling" approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and mortgage loans to unleash the potential of individuals and communities to produce and improve dwellings. ...
Urban consensus : contributions from the Latin American and the Caribbean Regional Plan of Action on Human Settlements
(ECLAC, 2011-09-06)
Explores how the regional situation has developed during the 1990s which respect to the broad thematic areas. Reviews settlement trends in Latin America and the Caribbean on the basis of statistics and analysis recently ...
Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges, dilemmas and commitments of a common urban agenda. Executive summary
(ECLAC, 2016-10)
This document was prepared by the Forum of Ministers and High Authorities of Housing and Urban Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI), with the collaboration of the Human Settlements Unit of the Sustainable ...