Enabling Affordable and Green Housing in Pakistan

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The project is a four-year intervention designed to improve the enabling environment for mortgage finance and housing development. The project will work to unlock constraints to the development of housing finance by supporting the establishment of the needed mortgage financing ecosystem and supporting the development of housing finance companies. The project will also work on unlocking supply-side constraints impeding the development of the housing market, including enabling developer finance through better regulation of real estate developments. By working in these two areas, the project will contribute to creating a mortgage finance market that will lead to reducing the significant housing shortage in Pakistan, particularly for affordable housing. The project will be implemented through 2 components. The first component focuses on implementing reforms and activities that will scale up the provision of housing finance while the second component will focus on implementing reforms and activities that will improve the supply of low cost housing through improved developer finance. Both components will be implemented simultaneously. The project will work in close collaboration with the World Bank's Housing Finance lending operation and is an integral part of the World Bank Group's strategic and comprehensive approach to support the development of the housing sector in Pakistan.