Pro-poor housing policies: Rethinking the potential of assisted self-help housing

Habitat International

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 278-287

  Bredenoord, Jan ^a   van Lindert, Paul ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assisted self help housing; Housing policies; Housing quality; Self help housing; Urban land use

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; HOUSING POLICY; LAND USE; SELF HELP; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HOUSING;

EID: 77249101476     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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