Triple Bottom Line Urban Enterprise
October 22, 2018 in Africa, Blog
“Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World,” published by the World Bank Group, is one of the best recent thorough examinations of the barriers to growth facing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of its main topics is how costly African cities are for residents and businesses. For residents, housing, food, and transport drive high costs….read more
October 10, 2018 in Africa, Blog, East Africa, Kenya
On September 26, UNOPS announced, with the Government of Kenya, plans to deliver 100,000 affordable homes in Kenya through a mixture of public investment, UNOPS resources, and private funding. This is the latest news in a series of actions, as part of President Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda, to address the country’s housing shortage through building…read more
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June 11, 2018 in Blog, Featured Member
Our featured member is Alejandra Ramos (@aleramos). Alejandra is a recent graduate of the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. She concentrated in Public Private Development, and also pursued coursework in urban design and housing. Prior to Penn, Alejandra studied Architecture at Columbia University and minored…read more
by dscadmin
May 9, 2018 in Blog, Featured Member
Our featured member is Olivia Caldwell (@ocaldwell), Principal at Affordable Housing Institute (AHI). With an extensive background on supply-side delivery of affordable housing, Olivia has lead responsibility for AHI’s ongoing work in Haiti, with multiple assignments and across Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the realms of green building and improved construction technology. For the last 2½…read more
October 21, 2017 in Blog, Global
And Then There Were Three… European Microfinance Award Selection Committee Picks Three Finalists To Progress To High Jury Copyright Julius Mwelu/UN-Habitat On 27th September, the Selection Committee for the European Microfinance Award 2017 on “Microfinance for Housing” chose the three finalists who will go on to compete for the €100,000 prize: The First MicroFinance Bank…read more
by Lenora
August 3, 2017 in Blog, South Asia, Southeast Asia
As a proud media partner for the 6th Asia-Pacific Housing Forum in Hong Kong on September 4-7, 2017, Developing Smart Cities is looking forward to this sixth conference by Habitat for Humanity International. With the theme of Housing at the Center, an echo of Habitat III, the program focuses on practical and scalable solutions for…read more
by Lenora
August 2, 2017 in Blog, Global
The World Resource Institute (WRI) recently waded into affordable housing after years of focusing primarily on energy, water, conservation and other traditional environmental sustainability themes. Although the inaugural working paper Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing does not break new ground, it does a positive service by…read more
by Tracy Factor
August 1, 2017 in Blog, Featured Member
This month’s featured member is César Ramírez Martinell (@cesar), Chairman and Founder of Barcelona Housing Systems. Architect and planner, César Ramírez Martinell is the chairman of Barcelona Housing Systems, a company active in the development, design and construction of affordable green housing. After studying architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture at the University of Barcelona…read more
by Lenora
Finance and investment in housing continue to emerge as outlier themes in international development finance and impact investment. Our friends at ImpactAlpha often cover impact investment and other innovation in affordable housing, both in the US and emerging markets. Reported by ImpactAlpha, a summary of alternative finance trends in Africa, Developing World Alternative Finance, by…read more
by Lenora
Last month’s blog post about Shaping the Future of Construction, led by the World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group, underlined the urgency of industry transformation in construction and engineering cited by this initiative. McKinsey’s work on Imagining construction’s digital future share many points, among which: Construction, infrastructure and real estate lag in integrating new operating disciplines…read more
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