Evaluation of IDB Group's Work through Financial Intermediaries: Housing Finance Background Report

Date
Mar 2016
This background paper has been prepared in conjunction with acomprehensive evaluation of the work of the Inter-American Development
Bank Group through financial intermediaries in Latin America
and the Caribbean. The purpose of this background paper is to provide additional (and more detailed) information on IDBGs operations supporting housing finance. It focuses on the context of and barriers to the housing finance markets in LAC, as well as on the specificities of IDBG's housing operations through FIs.