The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, will lend $301m to a developer in Mexico to build “affordable, green housing”. The loan is going to developer and…

Shenzhen has become China’s first tier-one city to announce plans to buy unsold homes from struggling developers to turn them into rentals for low-income people. It comes three months after…

A court in California says the city of Beverly Hills must stop approving construction projects because it is not complying with a state law that requires it to offer affordable…

A US-based 3D print construction company, Hive 3D, is printing five affordable homes made with near-zero carbon concrete in the tiny Texas town of Round Top, west of Houston. It…

The Walt Disney Company has announced plans to build 1,300 affordable houses for workers at its Disney World Florida theme park. Real estate company The Michaels Organisation will work as…