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Incremental housing as an opportunity to build green and resilient communities, the experience of Latinamerica and the Caribbean

Marina Muñoz Garcia

Moderator

date November 5, 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00
place
Multipurpose room 05
organization
Urban Housing Practitioners Hub (UHPH) for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
country
Mexico
language
English
Reference: 
TE 05-01

Summary

Based on concrete experiences and exchange, we provide participants with practical knowledge on sustainable and affordable technologies, strategies, and mechanisms for addressing inadequate housing safety and livability, as well as social and economic implications that incremental housing construction brings. Practitioners in housing policy, consulting, finance, and construction benefit, ultimately promoting social inclusion and reducing inequality to aid vulnerable global communities.

Objectives

1.How to introduce and implement innovative, sustainable, green and affordable technologies, construction systems, products, and technical services for incremental housing, based on market-oriented models.
2.How to develop effective strategies to improve access to finance for incremental housing investments, and implement policies to increase public investments.
3.How to integrate solutions into a model for global replication, with the regards of the elements that should be localized.

Session panelists

Panelist
Role
Organization
Country
Ms. Cecilia Rivera
Directora Perú - Subdirectora LATAM
Swisscontact - Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation
Ms. Gabriela Arrastúa
COO
Techo Internacional
Mr. Juan Ernesto Caballero
Chief of Programs
Build Change
Mr. Guilherme Simões Pereira
Secretário Nacional de Periferias
Ministério das Cidades