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We do this through Research that inspires practical and actionable outcomes, Education and Consulting that leads to both local innovation and transferable models.
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National Housing Conference
Thursday, October 8 at 9:00am - The Ground Beneath Their Feet
AHI--38 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA ...
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30am - The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Affordable Housing Institute--38 Ch...
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30am
Affordable Housing Institute
Affordable Housing Institute Its World's Children's Day. Unfortunately, around a billion children still languish in poverty and many are forced into labor. These pictures show a small glimpse into their lives.
Source: www.dawn.com
Children's Day is celebrated on various days in many places around the world. International Children's Day is celebrated on June 1 and Universal Children's Day is on November 20. Other countries celebrate a local 'children's day' on other dates. ...
Affordable Housing Institute "Africa's greatest resource is its youth": Kenyan slum group wins award for their work in preventing violence in the capital's slums by engaging and empowering disadvantaged youth.
Source: www.bustler.net
Bustler is all about architecture and architecture-related competitions.
Affordable Housing Institute The case of Liyar Expressway Resettlement Project is a very good and interesting example of how governments (in this case, Pakistani Government) can pursue Infrastructure projects, which might involve resettlement of incumbent slum dwellers, and relocate them to better communities with the provision of "adequate housing."
Source: www.lerpkarachi.com.pk
The Government of Pakistan had initiated two very vital roads infra structure projects for Karachi in the name of Lyari Expressway & Karachi Northern Bypass. Visit : www.lerpkarachi.com.pk
Affordable Housing Institute Sanitation and alternative energy strategy in Kibera could be a model for elsewhere.
Source: www.voanews.com
The scourge of so-called "flying toilets" - where human waste is put into a plastic bag and tossed into the air, landing on roads or in gutters - has plagued the slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi for decades. ...
Affordable Housing Institute Planet Slum: Photgraphs by Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen, who spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families' lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.
Source: www.foreignpolicy.com
Slum sanctuaries: For six weeks in 2005, photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen lived in a tiny sweltering room in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. "I got interested to break some of my own stereotypes of these places," he says. ...
Affordable Housing Institute
AHI's founder David Smith received a "Vision Award" for lifetime achievement in affordable housing at the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association Fall Developers Forum held in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 2nd.
He was recognized as a pioneer in both private transactions and government policy innovations, havi...ng created business lines in acquisition of affordable housing, financial recapitalization, debt restructuring, equity takeout and renewed affordability.Read More
He was recognized as a pioneer in both private transactions and government policy innovations, havi...ng created business lines in acquisition of affordable housing, financial recapitalization, debt restructuring, equity takeout and renewed affordability.Read More
Affordable Housing Institute
A growing issue, not only in the global South: Slums in Spain.
Spain is a good example of how the challenge of slums is not exclusive of developing countries. Indeed, despite that Spain has had an outstanding economic growth index in the years previous to the Crisis and its good average living standards, it is not a slum-free country.
Source: www.thepolisblog.org
Spain is a good example of how the challenge of slums is not exclusive of developing countries. Indeed, despite that Spain has had an outstanding economic growth index in the years previous to the Crisis and its good average living standards, it is not a slum-free country. ...
Affordable Housing Institute Poverty can be deadly: 16 killed in Philippine slum fire, including kidsMANILA, Philippines — A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents including women and children.
Source: www.chinapost.com.tw
A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents including women and children.
Affordable Housing Institute
Violent clashes in Algiers between police and
slum dwellers over housing conditions This story is a testimony oh how
government irresolution on slum issues can have violent, if unintended
consequences
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
People living in a shanty town in the Algerian capital have clashed with police for a second night in a row over housing conditions.
Affordable Housing Institute This video is worth spending a few minutes on.
Source: movingwindmills.org
The official website for William Kamkwamba's Malawi windmill and other development projects and documentary film.
Affordable Housing Institute This is a good example of how governments can choose to ignore and blame slums for social turmoil at the same time. This excerpt is based on Liyar, Karachi, Pakistan.
Source: www.youtube.com
Lyari has become synomous with gangs and violence. Once the business hub of Karachi, the district now resembles a slum. Successive governments have done little to provide basic amenities to the locale. ...
Affordable Housing Institute
The government of Pakistan allocated 1 billion ($1.25 million) for Lyarii upgrading project. Lyari is mostly a slum that is largely inhabited with ethnic minorities. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn
Source: www.dawn.com
KARACHI: The federal government has allocated Rs1 billion for developing infrastructure, sewerage lines, construction of parks, installation of streetlights and other civic projects in Lyari town. This ...
Affordable Housing Institute
Friends:
This is reminder that tomorrow, Oct 8th, is the release of AHI's landmark study," Mission Entrepreneurial Entities: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery." If you are in the the Washington D.C. area, do stop by. http://worldhabitat2009.eventbrite.com/
Source: worldhabitat2009.eventbrite.com
National Housing Conference presents Mission Entrepreneurial Entities: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery -- Thursday, October 08, 2009 -- Washington, DC
Affordable Housing Institute
Slum networking:
An article entitled 'Slumdog Engineer' was recently published on 'Sciencebase', the website of science writer David Bradley. His article discusses the work of Dr. Priti Parikh, now a Senior Consultant at Arup in the international development team. She and Allan McRobie suggest that the current cocktail... of approaches used to address poverty in the slums often stretches scarce resource too far. Interventions in health, education, physical improvements, and governance often cement in place the “poverty” mindset and set the slums apart from the urban infrastructure by using minimal paving, having public water posts and community latrines. This is based on the Slum Networking approach pioneered by Himanshu Parikh.Read More
An article entitled 'Slumdog Engineer' was recently published on 'Sciencebase', the website of science writer David Bradley. His article discusses the work of Dr. Priti Parikh, now a Senior Consultant at Arup in the international development team. She and Allan McRobie suggest that the current cocktail... of approaches used to address poverty in the slums often stretches scarce resource too far. Interventions in health, education, physical improvements, and governance often cement in place the “poverty” mindset and set the slums apart from the urban infrastructure by using minimal paving, having public water posts and community latrines. This is based on the Slum Networking approach pioneered by Himanshu Parikh.Read More
Source: www.sciencebase.com
Having discussed the possible environmental risks of charitable aid in the form of obsolete electronic goods to the developing world, ...
Affordable Housing Institute
Wired interview with Stewart Brand: Save the Slums
Some people see a squatter city in Nigeria or India and the desperation overwhelms them: rickety shelters, little kids working or begging, filthy water and air. Stewart Brand sees the same places and he's encouraged. The pioneering environmentalist, technology thinker, ...and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog has written a new manifesto, Whole Earth Discipline, in which he defends genetic engineering, nuclear power, and other longtime nemeses of the green left as good for the planet.Read More
Some people see a squatter city in Nigeria or India and the desperation overwhelms them: rickety shelters, little kids working or begging, filthy water and air. Stewart Brand sees the same places and he's encouraged. The pioneering environmentalist, technology thinker, ...and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog has written a new manifesto, Whole Earth Discipline, in which he defends genetic engineering, nuclear power, and other longtime nemeses of the green left as good for the planet.Read More
Source: www.wired.com
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