Vi-labs
- Financiamiento de la vivienda en ALC con Enfoque de Género
- Rental Policies for Social Housing
- Self-Production Housing
- Reconstrucción de Vivienda
- Nuevas tecnologías y materiales de construcción para vivienda en Chile
- Financiamiento para Vivienda Sostenible
- Garantías de Créditos Hipotecarios en Costa Rica
- Financiamiento de Infraestructura Sostenible
- Agenda público-privada por el financiamiento de vivienda
- The future of social housing: innovation, financing and regulation.
- Prácticas Locales e Innovación para la Gestión del Agua y Saneamiento en Bolivia
- Urban infrastructure resiliency solutions for the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- Día de los Derechos Humanos - Dignidad + Esperanza a través de la Vivienda
Vi-Lab Blog
Housing Self-Production Policies
In Latin America, housing self-production is commonly related to informal housing settlement processes in which vulnerable populations, with limited resources and without the capacity to access formal housing markets, self-build their residences.
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What are the LAVs?
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Knowledge
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Innovation
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Co-construction
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Investigation
They are workshops where the research and practice of different sectors (public, private, social, academic, among others) and scales (subnational, national, regional) converge to discuss and analyze knowledge and experiences regarding issues related to housing and habitat in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The LAVs are based on the demands of the actors and informed by the global agendas, and aim to bring together actors, generate shared visions and align effort for action and research, to face urban challenges and move towards sustainable development in the region.
Goals
- Generate critical mass to guide the region towards sustainable development based on housing and habitat.
- Develop alternatives on specific housing and habitat issues in the region.
- Exchange practices, opportunities and approaches to transfer, scale and enrich initiatives in housing and habitat issues in the region.
- Examine practices and approaches to enrich and guide research and action lines.
