Housing finance - Matches

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Philippine Journal of Development. The first semester issue celebrates this milestone with articles on cri..

Whenever I attend the inaugurations of our new social housing projects in Mindanao, I always find groups of children milling around as if wanting to j..

Last year marked the 25th year of the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA). Enacted in 1992, the UDHA brought the hope of realizing a socially jus..

The CMP fund is accessed through community associations (CAs). In highly-urbanized cities like Metro Manila, the maximum loan that may be provided by ..

The Community Mortgage Program (CMP) has been touted by many quarters as the most innovative and responsive government housing program in the Philippi..

The government’s Community Mortgage Program may have neglected poor families, according to a study released by state-owned think-tank Philippine..

Despite being one of the most innovative government housing programs in the country, the Community Mortgage Program (CMP) is saddled by weaknesses, re..

The Community Mortgage Program (CMP) is a financing scheme that enables organized residents of slums to borrow funds for land purchase and housing dev..

The government established the Community Mortgage Program (CMP), which is administered by the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), to enable inf..

With stricter risk management for banks and financial institutions and the need to address the housing gap of nearly three million units annually, str..

The development of mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) in many developed countries started as a strategy to expand and facilitate housing finance to ..

This paper draws lessons from international practices to determine the feasibility of developing mortgage-backed securitization (MBS) to expand housin..

In this update of housing subsidies in the Philippines and the fiscal costs of their application, the author delves into the issue of whether the subs..

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..

In recent years, a number of lending instruments have been introduced and tried out in the area of housing finance. In the Philippines, a group lendin..