Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies

At the beginning of the 20th century less than 15 percent of people across the globe lived in cities. This figure has risen to 50 percent (4.4 billion people) today and will exceed 66 percent (7.7 billion) by 2050. There is a significant shortfall...

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Main Authors: Innes, Cleo Rose, Casabianca, Brian
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/339131634618122122/Creating-Housing-Markets-in-Emerging-Market-Economies
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spelling okr-10986-365692021-11-13T05:10:36Z Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies Innes, Cleo Rose Casabianca, Brian EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES HOUSING HOUSING MARKET DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS GREEN BUILDING SUBSIDY At the beginning of the 20th century less than 15 percent of people across the globe lived in cities. This figure has risen to 50 percent (4.4 billion people) today and will exceed 66 percent (7.7 billion) by 2050. There is a significant shortfall of housing to meet the needs of people moving to cities, most of whom have limited resources but strong hopes for better educational and employment opportunities. Direct public provision of housing is not affordable for most national governments, so more than 1.6 billion people will struggle to secure housing by 2025. Addressing this under-provision of housing will require connecting capital with low-income urbanizing populations, including solutions to make the private sector more responsive to the investment opportunities that urbanization presents. 2021-11-12T22:44:01Z 2021-11-12T22:44:01Z 2021-10 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/339131634618122122/Creating-Housing-Markets-in-Emerging-Market-Economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36569 English EMCompass;Note 106 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
HOUSING
HOUSING MARKET DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
GREEN BUILDING
SUBSIDY
spellingShingle EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
HOUSING
HOUSING MARKET DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
GREEN BUILDING
SUBSIDY
Innes, Cleo Rose
Casabianca, Brian
Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
relation EMCompass;Note 106
description At the beginning of the 20th century less than 15 percent of people across the globe lived in cities. This figure has risen to 50 percent (4.4 billion people) today and will exceed 66 percent (7.7 billion) by 2050. There is a significant shortfall of housing to meet the needs of people moving to cities, most of whom have limited resources but strong hopes for better educational and employment opportunities. Direct public provision of housing is not affordable for most national governments, so more than 1.6 billion people will struggle to secure housing by 2025. Addressing this under-provision of housing will require connecting capital with low-income urbanizing populations, including solutions to make the private sector more responsive to the investment opportunities that urbanization presents.
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author Innes, Cleo Rose
Casabianca, Brian
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Casabianca, Brian
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title Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
title_short Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
title_full Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
title_fullStr Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
title_full_unstemmed Creating Housing Markets in Emerging Market Economies
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