Author: Matthew Ponsford
Date: May 27th, 2016
Source: place.trust.org

Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing.

The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building.

By: Mugabo Ignatius
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: News of Rwanda

The World Bank has extended a credit financing worth U$95 million to Rwanda the development of the country’s six secondary cities that are under the urbanization strategy.

According to the agreement penned on Wednesday, the funds will go towards supporting the development of infrastructure and local economic activities in the six secondary cities.

By: TNN

Date: April 5th 2016

Source: ET Reality / Economic Times India

Government policies significantly cause supply problems increasing housing costs

By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI

Date: March 14th 2016

Source: The Star

Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?

By: Ben Ezeamalu

Date: February 29th 2016

Source: Citiscope.org

A key regional meeting ahead of Habitat III resulted in a forward-looking declaration and a landmark document outlining a shared regional stance.

By: Agence France-Presse

Date: January 26th 2016

Source: South China Morning Post

Hundreds of Myanmar families were left destitute on Tuesday after government workers used mechanical diggers to flatten swathes of Yangon slum housing as the bitter competition for land intensifies in the fast-industrialising city.

By: Kizito Makoye

Date: January 25th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Free education but nowhere to sleep!" reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam's Jangwani slum, summing up the plight of hundreds of residents forcibly evicted from flood-prone areas of the Tanzanian capital.