New approaches to progressive housing in Latin America: A key to habitat programs and policy

Habitat International

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 309-323

  Ferguson, Bruce ^a   Navarrete, Jesus ^a  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Housing; Housing microfinance; Land development; Latin America; Progressive development

Indexed keywords

HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING POLICY; LOW INCOME HOUSING; MICROFINANCE;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0037964389     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-3975(03)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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