About Asia-Pacific Housing Conference 2022

The 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference (AHC) 2022 will take place virtually on 8–9 November 2022 and will be open to all. The theme will be "Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient." Participants can expect high-level technical sessions and parallel break-out sessions that will bring out the synergistic interplay of three critical factors to achieving affordable, inclusive, and resilient housing—access to affordable and well-located land, inclusive and effective city planning, as well as availability of affordable and sustainable housing finance. The sessions will also highlight the technological advancements for planning, designing, and construction of houses, and the need for sound policy and governance frameworks as enablers. 

Background

A city must provide housing to all its residents if it is to be called livable. Are cities in Asia and the Pacific livable from this perspective? Most cities in the lower- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face severe housing challenges. The urban poor and informal settlers suffer the most as they have no choice but to live substandard houses. According to the recent ADB publication Adequate and Affordable Housing, the conventional channels of housing delivery are failing to address the surging demand. The scale and pace of urbanization and population growth pose additional stress on the already scarce urban housing supply.   

In its Strategy 2030, ADB has committed to responding effectively to the needs of its developing member countries to achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. Among its operational priorities, Operational Priority 4: Making Cities More Livable (OP4) focuses on, among others, affordable housing as a key area to support its developing member countries on project financing, knowledge generation, and capacity building in the housing sector. This aligns very well with ADB’s goal to making cities more livable. For information on ADB’s housing initiatives and emerging trends in the region, you may download the following publications: Adequate and Affordable Housing: Enhancing ADB’s Support to Developing Member Countries, Creating Livable Asian Cities, and The Housing Challenge in Emerging Asia: Options and Solutions. 

ADB is privileged to host the 1st AHC 2022 on "Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient." AHC 2022, a flagship event of ADB, is a platform for the key stakeholders to learn from past and ongoing interventions in the housing sector. Together, we aim to support strengthening housing policies, programs, projects, and knowledge in the region. 

Objective

AHC 2022, a flagship event of ADB, will be an important platform to facilitate peer-to-peer learning from successful models and practices in the housing sector. It will discuss innovations and best practices to adopt as well as lessons and pitfalls to avoid for an affordable, inclusive, and resilient housing sector, especially for the vulnerable groups. AHC 2022 will bring in regional and international best practices to support this agenda. 

Target participants 

AHC 2022 is open for all. It encourages participants interested in the housing sector from ADB’s member countries, regional and international development partners, the private sector, research and academic institutes, civil society, among others. 

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