THE 5th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

HOUSING THE POOR THROUGH THE PRIVATE SECTOR

August 28-31, 2006. Asia Hotel Bangkok, Thailand

by Thai Appraisal Foundation & Thai Real Estate Business School

Come and exchange ideas with internationally acclaimed experts.

Finding out new solutions for your country’s low-income

housing policy, penetrating market niches in local context and

responding to the needs of the poor without wasting resources.

THE PROGRAM

DAY 1: FAILURES OF CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES

Introduction and brief country presentation.

Case Studies: Failed Conventional Approaches to House the Poor

•1950’s public housing: Limited supplies/wrong target groups

•1960’s walk-up apartments: Imitation of western social housing

•1970’s sites-and-serviced: Worldwide application and failure

•1980’s slum improvement: Insignificant changes in real terms

•1990’s land sharing: Exception cannot be made norm

Actual Shrinkage of Urban Slums in Selected Cities

Why & How? •Kuala Lumpur •Seoul •Singapore •Tokyo

Case Studies: Successful Private Sector Initiatives in Bangkok

•%, Bangkok slum, 43% in 1960 and 3% in 2005

•%, Bangkok private housing, 3% in 1974 to 40% in 2005

•A site of a former inner-city slum of 1,500 homes in late 1950’s

compared with the existing uses to ensure that it should not be kept.

•Even dwellers in an exceptional land-owner slum would like

to move out of it due to substandard condition and environment.

•Units in owner-occupied condominium projects in the fringe

where the rent is even lower than that in slums in prime location.

•A high-rise condominium built for slum dwellers to compensate

for the removal of them which is a good example of compensation.

Welcome Dinner at the Asia Hotel Bankok

DAY 2: TOOLS FOR THE SUCCESS

Tool 1: Housing Finance Required for Private Initiatives

Tool 1: The attributes of an effective borrower education program

Tool 2: Land Readjustment Scheme, Adding More Land Supplies

Tool 3: Land Titling for Private Properties

Tool 4: Construction Technology for Mass Housing

DAY 3: FIELD STUDY VISITS (Wednesday, August 30, 2006)

Site Visits

Government Housing Bank, UNCHS awarded

Tanom Mit Park, a "condo king"

Navanakorn, cheap rental apartment

Preuksa13 Estate, successful low-priced townhouses

Baan Eur Arthorn, a million-housing-units project

Windshield survey, the northern corridor to see

the chronological changes in housing for the poor

DAY 4: CRITICAL TECHNIQUES

Panel: Professionals Required for Sustainable Housing Markets

Property Management Association

Real Estate Brokers Association

How to Develop Successful Housing Projects for the Poor

•Technique 1: Rental Housing, an Alternative

•Technique 2: Modeling of Mass Appraisal for the Relocation

•Technique 3: Efficient Data Centre on Slums

Panel: New Policy: Enabling the Private Sector to House the Poor

Conclusion

Farewell Dinner on a River Cruise along the Chao Phraya River

CONTACT:

Ms. Pattama Chantranukul

Program Coordinator, Thai Appraisal Foundation

10 Nonsee Rd., Bangkok 10120, Thailand

Telephone: 66-2295-3171

Facsimile: 66-2295-1154

E-mail: pattama@thaiappraisal.org

Details and Online Registration:

http://www.trebs.ac.th/English/SUMMARY/Housing.htm

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