Striking a Balance : Toward a Comprehensive Housing Policy for a Post-COVID Colombia
Government initiatives to reduce the housing deficit in Colombia go back more than a hundred years, but it was only after the creation of the Ministry of Housing as an independent agency, a decade ago, that national housing policy took on the relev...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/481511633672773921/Striking-a-Balance-Toward-a-Comprehensive-Housing-Policy-for-a-Post-COVID-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36500 |
| Summary: | Government initiatives to reduce the
housing deficit in Colombia go back more than a hundred
years, but it was only after the creation of the Ministry of
Housing as an independent agency, a decade ago, that
national housing policy took on the relevance that it has
today. Since then, Colombia has made substantial progress.
Building on the progress made by previous governments, since
2018 the national government has promoted a comprehensive,
inclusive, and sustainable housing policy, which has led to
notable improvements, and enabled significant progress
towards achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
and implementing best practices in the region. The past two
and a half years have been full of positive results and
unimaginable challenges, including the Coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this context, national housing
policy in Colombia has started to undergo a transition
towards a truly integrated approach, one which addresses
several of the challenges discussed in the report. One of
the key aspects of this transition is the main thesis
developed in this report: the need to intensify housing
policy’s focus on the qualitative housing deficit after
years of concentrated efforts to reduce the quantitative deficit. |
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