Sustainable Development of the Housing Finance System: The Experience of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

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UN-HABITAT, 2002 - Social Science - 35 pages
 

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Page 7 - By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers...
Page 12 - Its mission is to promote the construction of new houses, the repair and modernization of existing houses and the improvement of housing and living conditions in Canada.
Page 5 - Declaration, committing themselves to the goals of adequate shelter for all and sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world. Five years later, in June 2001, the Declaration on Cities and other Human Settlements in the New Millennium...
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Page 5 - ... considerations, efforts should be made to incorporate the informal sector into the formal economy, wherever feasible. It is also important to reduce the transfer costs of migrant workers' remittances and create opportunities for development-oriented investments, including housing. 19. It is critical to reinforce national efforts in capacity-building in developing countries and countries with economies in transition in such areas as institutional infrastructure, human resource development, public...
Page 18 - Hence, by the early 1950s, federal legislation had created a national market for home loans that was more accessible to borrowers and more viable for lenders.
Page 17 - To further encourage lenders to participate in the joint loans, the government compensated the lenders for default losses on a fairly generous basis free of charge.
Page 11 - Among the more important considerations in the development of a domestic housing finance system are the role of government and the relationship between the public and private sectors. In this respect, over time, I believe that we in Canada have taken a pragmatic approach to this issue.

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