1st Edition
The Political Economy of Housing the Urban Poor An Asian Perspective
- Introduction
- Housing Policies: Past and Present
- From Strategy to Practice
- The Limits of the Enabling Strategy
- Whither Informal-Sector Housing
- Partnering the Private Sector
- A Low-Income Housing Policy
- A Low-Income Housing Niche
- Conclusions
Biography
Yap Kioe Sheng is an urban anthropologist from the Netherlands, with a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was a staff member of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (1982–1987) in Nairobi (Kenya), Professor of Housing and Urban Development at the Asian Institute of Technology (1987–2000), and Chief of the Human Settlements Section and the Poverty Reduction Section at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2000–2009) in Bangkok (Thailand). He retired in 2009 and lives in Bangkok. His areas of work include urban poverty reduction, low-income housing, and urbanization. He has worked extensively in Asia: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam, and has written numerous articles for journals and chapters for books on urban issues.
