Dialogue on core issues re access to functioning financial mechanisms for slum inhabitants
Jennervik, Ann
Slums represent a market, a fact little known by formal housing finance institutions. Cities in developing nations worldwide give clear evidence to the thesis that progress creates poverty through constraints on the access to land. Without access to functioning financial mechanisms (institutions as well as instruments), one milliard people is kept from achieving an acceptable housing standard. FIG and UN Habitat have joined forces in a Project leading up to a two-days Seminar and Workshops Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing in Stockholm 2008. The two themes are linked together: − Securing tenure as the key to efficient finance and housing and − Functioning financial markets for housing finance. We need to start working together! We need to openly start sharing information and experience. We need to look beyond our immediate gain and understand the larger picture. A Dialogue should be held as part of this project and starts during this FIG working week in Hong Kong May 2007. The dialogue will be based on Real-life experience brought to the table by each participant. Within the Project, the collective experience will be added on to by well-prepared future oriented crosscheck surveys and thematic analysis. Careful thoughts shall be given to what type of result that can be expected at the end of the project, to whom it should be delivered and in what form.
Event: XXX FIG Working Week and General Assembly : Strategic Integration of Surveying Services
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