The Housing Challenge in Emerging Asia: Options and Solutions

Abstract

The book provides new insights and ideas to design and implement policies that can best improve access to affordable and adequate housing. It offers an innovative theoretical framework for conceptualizing and analyzing housing policies. It also critically reviews and presents lessons from housing policies of several countries, including advanced economies within and outside Asia, such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as emerging countries within Asia, such as India and the People’s Republic of China.