IHC Rental Series | #2
This is the second of three policy papers looking at rental housing commissioned by the International Housing Coalition (IHC). The IHC believes that rental housing is critical to sound housing policies as it is the form of tenure under which most urban low income families live, in both developed and developing countries. It is particularly critical in the developing world as housing conditions are often inadequate.
Rental housing is not something that comes immediately to mind when it we think of disaster reconstruction. Yet it should. When disasters hit urban areas, the majority of people are likely to be renters, especially low-income people. The experience in Haiti and, more recently, of the Philippines, shows how subsidies for rental assistance can be a positive force in aiding the recovery.
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Resource collections
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience