Incremental construction: A strategy to facilitate access to housing

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-108

  Greene, Margarita ^a   Rojas, Eduardo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Government programmes; Housing policy; Incremental house construction; Informal housing; Latin America; Microcredit; Poverty; Urban land development

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING POLICY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; MICROFINANCE; POVERTY;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 41049100069     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247808089150     Document Type: Article

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