ABSTRACT
This book contains a collection of thematic state of the art reviews on affordable housing and well-informed accounts of housing policies and practices in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Even though the 17 country case chapters scrutinize housing policies and practices in their specific national and local contexts, overall, three broad thematic fields stand out throughout this book. The first field relates, by definition, to the affordability of housing options for the urban poor. A second common topic is the issue of the sustainability of low-income urban housing. The governance aspects of housing provision, including the role of the various stakeholders involved in the production of low-income housing, represent the third general theme that connects the chapters.
