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Building more affordable and disaster-resilient housing in Latin America and the Caribbean: a few policy ideas

Between 2010 and 2017, Chile was struck by 10 major natural disasters, which damaged over 340,000 homes — costing billions of $$ in reconstruction. How can Latin American and Caribbean cities make housing more affordable and disaster-resilient for all? Here are a few policy ideas: http://wrld.bg/nkLW30bqONc

Building more affordable and disaster-resilient housing in Latin America and the Caribbean: a few policy ideas

About this series More blog posts Between 2010 and 2017, Chile was struck by 10 major natural hazard events. These disasters affected as many as 340,583 houses and cost $3.6 billion in reconstruction (Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile). Post-disaster assessments point to housing as one of th…