Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing

FIG/UN-Habitat seminars and workshops in Stockholm, Sweden June 16-17, 2008 Housing for urban poor

• Constraints on access to land (property) • Need for functioning institutions and mechanism (land management, financial mechanisms) • Slums represents a market, 3 billion people need adequate housing, housing a human right • Formal credits only available for freehold and leasehold titled properties • Microfinancing institutes (MFI) is lending 500-5000 USD on short-term conditions, not so interested in housing. • Mortgage market usually more than 10 000 USD and on terms longer than 10 years. • Need to mobilise local capital markets • Public-private partnership • Alternative tenure: group rights, occupancy rights, rents, common facilities Project content

• Focal problem: Money is available but is not used due to lack of institutions and mechanisms • Secure tenure a key for efficient finance of housing • Functional financial markets needed for housing finance Activities

• Two-day seminar in Stockholm, June 2008 • Thematic studies, cross-cutting issues, projects to promote change • Bringing new actors on board for the slum upgrading market and widen the dialogue and understanding to explore possibilities for change of institutions Organisation

• FIG-UN-Habitat • Commission 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 • Lincoln Institute • Global Land Tool Network (UN-Habitat) • High Level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor • National Housing Credit Board (Sweden) • Lantmäteriet (Sweden) Paper from Com 7 • Analyses of good and bad experiences from land administration upgrading projects and identifying issues for discussions: – Formal and informal tenure situation, social, customary, occupancy legal-illegal, leasehold, rent, group rights, common facilities. – Collect, safekeeping and updating of information – Graphic information, different ways – Connection between information system and legal situation, enforcement of rights – Connection between information system and financial markets – Connection between markets, values and foreclosure procedures • Results: Recommendations for change of land administration institutions, for studies, for elaboration of projects, for dissemination and networking… Assistance needed

• References to projects, examples etc of interest • Members to reference group for the development of the key analysis paper. • Participation in the discussion in Stockholm Process of Adjudication (4)

• Data Registration – Attribute data entered in the Peri - Urban Property Database • i.e. Owner details, Zone, Block & House number, Landuse, Occupancy licence number and Number of units – Spatial data entered in the Chaisa Property Map • i.e. Ten digit House Reference Number. e.g. 0031800025 ay i W ath ag Mb KEMRI

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