A financial framework for reducing slums: lessons from experience in Latin America

Finance for incremental housing; current status and prospects for expansion

“…A series of small short-term loans can fund the steps in this progressive housing process with payments affordable to households. Small, serial loans can greatly increase the speed and lower the high cost (Ferguson & Navarette, 2003) of the incremental housing process.…”

Truths and myths about community participation in post-disaster housing projects

“…A cost-reduction approach: by using the community in the construction process, capital investment can be reduced allowing scarce available resources to be spread among more families (Ettouney and Abdel-Kader, 2003;Ferguson and Navarrete, 2003).…”

Using Integrated Spatial Planning Framework “ISPF” to Connect Informal Settlement to the Main City. Case Study: Komb, Chabahar City, Iran

“…According to the World Bank (1991) understanding this matter required playing a practical role in development thinking in which it had stepped [16]. A new mechanism was needed to implement in situ upgrading of informal settlements, which would emphasize on the suppliance of the cost of services [17], [18]; it also meant that objective changes and services provided for the local community were tangible and the use of standards and norms of planning and designing was possible according to this approach [13]. According to the results of Cities Alliance (1999) in situ upgrading of informal settlements is an integrated approach to improve economic, social, institutional conditions and activities associated with local community [19].…”