Housing Microfinance, a comprehensive overview of housing microfinance worldwide, provides solid guidance for both international and domestic microfinance institutions that are considering expanding into housing, as well as for providers of conventional housing loans who seek to offer their services to poor clients who lack collateral or regular income.
Franck Daphnis is a founding partner and also president and CEO of Development Innovations Group. Bruce Ferguson is president of Ferguson Development Associates.
"In this very welcome book, housing and microfinance come together to create a development breakthrough. This book’s lessons should be widely adopted."—Maria Otero, ACCION International
"Provides the reader with an excellent analysis of lower income housing finance issues around the world. The scope and quality of the research means that few examples are left unturned and every scrap of experience is recorded for the use of others."—International Union of Housing Finance
"On the cutting edge of both the microfinance and the housing and infrastructure fields in development.... a very important, well written, and interesting contribution to this emerging area of study and practice."—Renana Jhabvala, SEWA Bank
