World Bank (in date order)
March 12, 2009
Housing Subsidies: Who Gets What and Why It Matters
This session looked at the highly charged issue of the distribution of housing subsidies in many of the countries where we work and explored a framework for identifying and measuring the flow of financial and real-sector subsidies to various beneficiaries.
March 11, 2009
Current Approaches to Addressing Key Challenges in Slums
This session featured several approaches to addressing some of the key challenges in slums and slum upgrading through project case studies.
March 9, 2009
Urban Forum
Access and Mobility - Why Land and Housing Markets Hold the Key
Moderated by Robert Buckley, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
Speaker: Alain Bertaud, International Urban Planning Expert
April 30, 2007
Tacking the Shelter Challenge of Cities: Thinking It Through Together
The World Bank Group is increasingly engaged in addressing the shelter challenges facing a number of prominent capital and mega cities around the world.
March 15-17, 2006
Global Conference on Housing Finance in Emerging Markets
Other Organizations
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Housing Finance in a Changing Global Environment
International Housing Finance Program, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
October 5, 2009
World Habitat Day
The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October as annual World Habitat Day.
September 5-9, 2009
International Federation for Housing and Planning: World Congress 2009
Berlin, Germany.
February 2-4, 2009
FIG Commission 3 Workshop on “Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas
The 2009 Workshop and Annual Meeting of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Commission 3 on “Spatial Information for Management of Sustainable Urban Areas” took place in Mainz, Germany.
June 28 - July 1, 2009
Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation
European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), Prague, Czech Republic.
February 2-4, 2004
Housing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Commitments
Hong Kong Housing Authority.
October 27-28, 2003
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Conference on Real Estate Indicators and Financial Stability
Washington, DC.
The following organizations have events of interest related to housing and land:
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