Affordable Housing Institute
Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
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Building on Faith
making poverty housing history
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The Affordable Housing Institute innovates sustainable improvements in local housing finance ecosystems by working with governments, parastatals, NGO's, and stakeholders to design, develop, pilot, and improve housing finance policies and programs.
As a housing finance policy/program innovator, AHI organizes, interconnects, and presents the vast body of existing information on housing to enable change-makers to conceptualize, design, enact and implement programmatic and structural innovations that will strengthen their affordable housing supply and delivery systems.
WHERE WE WORK
David Smith's Blog
Too many houses: Part 1, the un-growing city
A town is a business that sells quality of life and competes with other towns to attract real estate tax payers. It spends its revenue ...
Mission entrepreneurial entities (MEEs)
What with my work with Slum Dwellers International, I’ve been spending inordinate time thinking about SDI’s members, which are federat...
When top-down doesn’t work
Should policy be driven top-down (large units of government creating the program and distributing resources) or bottom-up (local units of gov...