Housing Finance in Emerging Markets

The growth of urban areas and population in middle and low income countries is a continuing trend. Urbanization expands as rural to urban migration offers better income opportunities in cities. This trend is both a source of development opportunities and challenges for the housing sector. On the one hand, housing is a large and growing market, and on the other, massive slums confirm the poor housing conditions in many developing countries. These adverse conditions mirror inadequate housing policies, inefficient or absent property registration, as well as limits to access to housing finance. Provision of affordable housing is therefore an important topic in the fight against poverty. This book focuses on solutions that improve the enabling environment for the poor in accessing housing finance. It explores how to develop and integrate housing finance into a sustainable financial system for developing countries and offers ways in which low-income families can obtain better access to housing finance. This book provides a conceptual framework for housing finance development and addresses practical solutions in the provision of housing finance and compares different approaches.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Challenges of Housing Finance.- Housing Finance and Financial Inclusion.- Government Policies and Their Implications for Housing Finance.- Regulation and Access to Finance.- Institutions and the Promotion of Housing Finance.- Wholesale Funding Instruments.- Primary Mortgage Market Development in Emerging Markets - Is the Central and Eastern Europe Experience Replicable in Sub-Saharan Africa?.- Housing Finance from Post-conflict Intervention to Market Development in the Balkans.- Approaches and Policies at KfW Entwicklungsbank.