Improving Housing Subsidy Systems

 

Many countries have distorting, regressive, and unnecessarily costly housing subsidy programs that have a negative impact on the healthy development of housing finance markets. The World Bank commissioned the IHFP to prepare guidelines for the analysis and design of finance-related subsidy programs.

 

 

 

 

Consumer Guides to Mortgage Lending

 

Consumer protection issues have long concerned IHFP's Jack Guttentag. The most frequent questions from readers of his newspaper columns and website are complied in two books: