Improving Housing in Informal Settlements: Assessing the impacts in human development

This study assesses the societal returns of improving equitable access to adequate housing in informal settlements, particularly linked to human development as measured by the Human Development Index, or HDI.

Through an extensive literature review and a statistical modeling exercise, the analysis shows that adequate housing is an infrastructure for well-being and sustainability, a key enabler for dimensions of human development, with direct impacts for the residents of informal settlements in relation to living standards, health and education, and for broader societal systems.