Urbanisation and housing the poor. Overview

International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 212-218

  Desai, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordability; Cities; Displacement; Evictions; Governance; Homelessness; Housing; Housing finance; Inequality; Infrastructure; Migration; Millennium development goals; NGOs; Renting; Sanitation; Security of tenure; Self help housing; Services; Slums; Squatter clearance; Squatter settlements; Urban poor; Urbanisation; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884453453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00019-9     Document Type: Chapter

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