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POLICY REVIEW
impact on the success of In the US counties, for provide them with the neces-
affordable housing programs. example, a US$1 increase in sary tools to improve their fi-
Capacity building activities university expenditures leads nancial situation. In addition,
can include training on to an 89-cent increase in the skill development can lead to
financial management, home urban income. Richmond, the creation of new businesses
maintenance, and community US offers free/subsidized and job opportunities, which
building. By providing solar power and home energy can contribute to economic
individuals with the necessary efficiency programs, and the growth and development.
skills to manage their finances Richmond BUILD program
and maintain their homes, trains young individuals CALL FOR INNOVATIVE
they can improve their quality in building trade skills to POLICIES
of life and ensure the long- install the equipment. Cooler Housing Policies have
term sustainability of the housing designs can reduce always been very sensitive
housing units. For example, energy consumption and to market forces and social
as part of inclusive planning, heat stress, especially for impact. Cost of materials and
PMAY-Grameen and Biju- vulnerable populations. implementation mechanism
PakkaGhar in Odisha have These initiatives aim to systemic impact on the local
ensured the home owner gets lower energy costs, reduce economy and the society
the skill, learn Geo-tagging, greenhouse gas emissions, have always been cited as the
get paid wages during and promote sustainable housing policy low-hanging
training and also self-build the economic growth. In China, fruits. The advancement in
house through construction Suzhou Industrial Park has technology, rate of adoption
education and training. The set up its own technical and of digital governance model
programme helped build the vocational training colleges. and market-linked economic
community resilience during This has resulted in stronger policies have reshaped
COVID-19 impact. UNDP linkages between skills the affordable housing
India State Odisha Office and supply and actual needs of schemes across many policy
Government of Odisha one the local industries as well interventions. The housing
of the leading the examples as boosting productivity policies in the new urban
of capacity building and and competitiveness of order can create a multiplier
delivering housing promises the industrial park. These effect through adoption of the
measures were complemented
in cyclone affected and other with talent attraction following measures:
disaster risk areas of Odisha. • The private and public
The challenges were manifold: strategies such as housing sector can benefit from
Use of local media, NSDM subsidies (World Cities Report, affordable housing
2022).
qualification packs translated programs, having strong
into local language materials The impact of skill devel- institutional mechanism
in housing construction, opment on the social and and facilitatory
quality construction economic well-being of in- regulations and policies
awareness and the Digital dividuals is significant. Skill in place;
interface are changing the development can improve the
passive to active affordable self-confidence and self-es- • Pro-active regulatory
housing policy-making. teem of individuals, and it can and administrative
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