Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure

Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure documents the radical changes and developments that have taken place in this area over the last 20 years, from the perspective of a Northern NGO, Homeless International.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Homeless International's Involvement in Urban Development Finance; Chapter 3: Building Community Foundations; Chapter 4: Taking Risks; Chapter 5: A Continuum of Financial Services; Chapter 6: Guarantees of Success? Chapter 7: The Community-Led Infrastructure Finance Facility Chapter 8: Major Slum Upgrading; Chapter 9: Working with Government; Chapter 10: Reflections: Homing in on Homeless International; Glossary of Technical Terms

About the author

Ruth McLeod has been Chief Executive of Homeless International since 1989. She has worked for more than 30 years on issues relating to urban poverty, promoting the development of innovative financing mechanisms that provide organizations of the urban poor with direct access to development capital for slum upgrading and infrastructure provision.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth McLeod, Kim Mullard
• Assisted by: Ruth McLeod (Editor), Kim Mullard (Editor)
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781853396397
• ISBN: 978-1-85339-639-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 232 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Urban Management; Urban Management Series; Urban Management Series; Urban Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories