Written by Nino Mesarina and Christy Stickney and based on the research of ACCION International and Habitat for Humanity International, released May 2007 as Number 21 of InSight, a publication of ACCION International, 15 pages, available here.
ACCION International, a U.S. based non-profit which heads a network of 27 microfinance institutions (MFIs), and Habitat for Humanity International have completed this paper on housing microfinance (HMF). Along with analyzing HMF, a new class of micro loans intended for housing improvement or building, the study concludes with recommendations to the microfinance industry. ACCION and Habitat have compiled data on HMF by interviewing loan officers and managers of ten of ACCION’s Latin American partner MFIs, as well as reviewing the institutions’ portfolios. Seven of the MFIs researched provide HMF loans, two have HMF pilot programs, and the final MFI does not include HMF within its services.
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