Affordable Housing: Challenges and Policies
The concept of affordable housing involves many complex variables: housing distribution and rental costs, housing types and quality, household income. Financing policies and households' ability to borrow, housing market policies that control supply and demand, the social aspect and the diversity of household preferences.
Housing has become one of the most important issues facing countries in the Middle East. According to the United Nations, more than 1.1 billion urban dwellers live in slums or in inadequate…
This paper examines the sustainable urban upgrading approach for informal housing as an effective solution in developing countries. It aims to understand the economic, social, and environmental…
The phenomenon of informal settlement is one of the societal trends to deal with the housing crisis by building housing units on lands that are not suitable for human settlement and in violation…