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An arsenal of digital tools, such as geofencing, location sharing, and 3D printing, is helping fight the spread of the coronavirus.
It is time to revisit urban strategies and revise the urbanization process and practices to build back better post-pandemic cities.
Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.
A community-driven initiative can benefit interventions in housing and create opportunities to improve the design and delivery of services and facilities in critical sectors.
Trust-based frameworks safeguard vulnerable people while ensuring their assets support care and quality of life.
Solutions include lowering statutory maximum lending rates, expanding policy financing and mid-rate loans, increasing loans and loan guarantees.
Enhancing housing affordability and sustainability requires capacity development, affordability-based demand assessment, financing, and design improvements.
Policies should promote the growth and sustainability of social enterprises without making them dependent on state support.
Managing household debt is becoming increasingly difficult for low-income households.
The Republic of Korea has been a leader in training government officials to be catalysts of economic development.