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This report explores the gap in global affordable housing - it outlines how four approaches - unlocking land supply, reducing construction costs, improving operations and maintenance, and lowering financing costs for buyers and developers - could reduce the cost of affordable housing by 20 to 50%, and substantially narrow the affordable housing gap by 2025.

This report documents an interview with Ruban Selvanayagam from Fez Tá Pronto Construction System in Brazil, a real estate development model that is focused on serving people at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) with affordable and high quality housing. It discusses the dysfunctional mainstream housing market dynamics, and the current practical challenges that face the scheme.

This report about a private sector mapping project takes a closer look at the current motives, strategies, incentives, obstacles, and benefits as perceived by firms to enter untapped majority markets. For this purpose, 521 interviews in thirteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were conducted.

This report provides an overview of the affordable housing market in Kenya; it is aimed at practitioners and investors who are looking to enter the affordable housing sector in the country or elsewhere. It describes the challenges that practitioners encounter and provides strategies to address them.

This report identifies seven inclusive business models that expand access to goods, services, and livelihood opportunities for the Base of the Pyramid while generating strong financial returns. It summarises and analyses patterns in the solutions companies with inclusive business models are using to succeed.

This report explores the concept, design and approach of business models providing affordable housing to the Base of Pyramid; it illustrates case examples and draws on insights regarding barriers to scale on land rights, finance, supportive policy and collaborative action issues. It concludes with recommendations for the stakeholders including Financial institutions, Social and Private investors, and Real Estate Developers, that are involved in building the market for affordable housing.

Esta publicación presenta seis modelos de negocios inclusivos en diversos temas que han sido exitosos por parte de la cartera de inversiones de la Corporación Financiera internacional. Se resumen los modelos, se exponen y analizan las razones por las cuales han sido exitosos, esto con el objetivo de servir a personas del sector privado que estén interesadasen iniciar un modelo de negocios inclusivo.

This thesis reviews five elements needed by social enterprises working at the base of the pyramid in order to achieve scale and sustainability, drawing upon examples from the Philippine BOP retail market. It reviews and makes recommendations for BOP theory development and encourages further research into BOP consumer behaviour.