This report summarizes the results of the analytical work on housing market finance carried out by the World Bank Group at the request of the Ministry of Finance. The purpose of the work was to inform the policy dialogue about how best to develop a sustainable housing finance market in Nigeria,...

1. The centrality of housing to economic development -- 2. A conceptual framework for understanding housing and economic development -- 3. Historical evolution of ideas on housing and economic development -- 4. Housing as a source of economic development -- 5. Housing finance and development --...