Quick Guides
 

This set of seven Quick Guides has been jointly prepared by UNESCAP and UN-HABITAT to aid the daily work of national and local government officials and policy makers as well as other low-income housing stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific in their quest to improve housing for the urban poor. It is not aimed at specialists, but by using easily understandable language and a user-friendly consise structure, is envisaged as a quick tool to provide a basic understanding of low-income housing issues.

To download the Quick Guides please click on the respective images or the links provided in each of the sections below.

 
Please click here to view Quick Guide 1 - URBANIZATION: The role the poor play in urban development

1) URBANIZATION: The role the poor play in urban development

This Quick Guide looks at some of the current trends in urbanization and provides a conceptual framework for housing the urban poor.
Download Quick Guide 1 here and the original paper here.

Please click here to view Quick Guide 2 - LOW-INCOME HOUSING: Approaches to help the urban poor find adequate accommodation

2) LOW-INCOME HOUSING: Approaches to help the urban poor find adequate accommodation

This Quick Guide provides information on various proven and innovative approaches and methodologies to address low-income housing.
Download Quick Guide 2 here and the original paper here.

Please click here to view the original paper on: Land for housing the urban poor

3) Land for Housing the Urban Poor

This Quick Guide (available soon) reviews various issues and concepts related to securing land for housing the urban poor.
Download the original paper here.

Please click here to view Quick Guide 4 - EVICTION: Alternatives to the whole-scale destruction of urban poor communities

4) EVICTION: Alternatives to the whole-scale destruction of urban poor communites

This guide looks at the various causes of evictions, their effect on poor people's lives and explores practical, viable and replicable alternatives to eviction.
Download Quick Guide 4 here and the original paper here.

Please click here to view Quick Guide 5 - HOUSING FINANCE: Ways to help the poor pay for housing

5) AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE: Ways to help the poor pay for housing

This Quick Guide introduces some key concepts of housing finance and how it provides or fails to provide financing to the urban poor.
Download Quick Guide 5 here and the original paper here.

Please click here to view Quick Guide 6 - COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS: The poor as agents of development

6) COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS: The poor as agents of development

This Quick Guide shows how community organizations can be powerful development mechanisms of the urban poor.
Download Quick Guide 6 here and the original paper here.

Please click here to view Quick Guide 7 - RENTAL HOUSING: A much neglected housing option for the poor

7) RENTAL HOUSING: A much neglected housing option for the poor

This Quick Guide presents rental housing as one important housing option for urban poor households not ready or able to buy or build houses of their own.
Download Quick Guide 7 here and the original paper here.