Taking Shelter - Practical Action Publishing

Taking Shelter: Housing Finance For The World's Poor Explores Recent Innovations In Housing Microfinance, Presented By The Innovators Themselves: From Field Researchers And Financial Providers, To Investors And Regulators. It Is A Key Reference To Any Reader Interested In Expanding Housing Finance For The World's Poor.how Do Low-income Families, Representing Some 70 Of The World's Population, Finance Home Building And Improvements - And How Is The Financial Sector, From Microfinance Institutions And Banks To Investors And Regulators, Changing To Serve Their Needs?the Practice Of Housing Microfinance Has Evolved Substantially, With A Large Number Of Innovations Across The Entire Housing Financing Ecosystem. New Research Methodologies, Such As Financial Diaries, Have Yielded A Deeper And More Nuanced Understanding Of How Poor Households Use Finance, Both Formal And Informal, To Construct Their Homes.the Housing Finance Industry Is Also Growing.