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oF APUHF

The importance of housing worldwide cannot be overstated. Housing is a critical social necessity. Shelter has been historically equated with a basic human right alongwith food and clothing. Housing not only provides shelter, it is the also cornerstone of community life, the center of family activities and a reference point for societal esteem, and above all the most important financial asset of the poor. Of the three basic social needs i.e., the food, clothing and shelter, shelter is often beyond the reach of the poor of many societies around the globe. While the poorest somehow manage to procure food and clothing, still there are hundreds of millions of shelter-less poor around the globe.

OBJECTIVE

To provide a basis and a platform for exchange of ideas, views, experiences, events, practices, products, products in different countries of South Asia which may help in policy design, strategic intervention, design of different instruments, for low income housing and the housing finance market, exchange of learning and best practices so as to facilitate a coordinated approach towards “Housing for All” in different countries in the region.