How to reduce the housing deficit in Latin America

Dołączył: 06 Mar 2024 Posty: 1

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the demand for housing is greater than the supply of decent housing. This is what is known as the housing deficit, or housing deficit. This can be both quantitative and qualitative. The first measures the need of households for new housing. The qualitative deficit, for its part, is made up of housing units in poor condition and/or those that need access to basic services such as drinking water, sewage, etc. It is estimated that the housing deficit affects almost half of LAC households . However, this data is prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which impoverished the economies of the most vulnerable populations, so it is possible that the housing gap has increased even more.

The IDB Group , composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest , and IDB Lab , has been leading the provision of solutions that make it possible to reduce Phone Number List the housing deficit in the region for decades . In the current context of economic recovery, our role is more necessary than ever to achieve this objective. For this reason, the IDB Group held the 2022 Housing Forum on September 29 and 30 , which addressed the main solutions for reducing the housing deficit taking into account the objectives of resilience, adaptation to climate change and inclusion. included in the IDB Vision 2025 . Keep reading so you don't miss any details! IDB Group Housing.

Forum 2022 This series of blogs seeks to share with all interested readers, both in LAC and the rest of the world, the most innovative solutions from the public and private sectors to reduce the housing deficit in the region. The IDB Group Housing Forum consisted of 7 panels, which addressed the following thematic areas: (by clicking on the titles, you can access a monographic blog for each panel) PANEL 1: Incentives to address the housing deficit Currently, new subsidy operations are being explored that promote accessibility and affordability of housing for purchase and rental. These should be resilient to climate change for vulnerable populations, linked to transportation, employment, services, equipment and infrastructure. Likewise, they should focus on addressing the qualitative deficit through improvements, extensions and readaptations of housing and land regularization. Panel Recording: Incentives to address the housing deficit.

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