Analysis of two alternative housing policies: rental and collective housing 2013, para. 17
Párrafo
Paragraph text
Until the 1980s, slum dwellers and the urban poor had not been a target for financial services. However, in the 1980s private financial investors came to regard the poor as "bankable", and in the past 10 years, a growing number of housing microfinance programmes emerged offering loans to low-income households. Housing microfinance loans are much smaller than mortgages, are typically granted for shorter terms and are used mainly to finance progressive improvements to housing (for example, building sanitary amenities) and expansions to an existing dwelling.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Economic Rights
Poverty
Año
2013
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/289, para. 17.