Solly Angel Speaks at World Bank Land Conference

Director of Urban Expansion, Solly Angel, moderated a session on “Revisiting Sites and Services for the 21st Century” at the World Bank Land Conference 2025 in Washington, D.C. The session focused on addressing the affordable housing problem at scale by providing serviced sites on which people could build their homes by themselves. In preparation for the session, Angel interviewed Michael Cohen (The New School), who worked at the World Bank on the first sites and services project in Dakar, Senegal, in 1972. Angel also gave a talk, “Empowering Rural Landholders on the Urban Periphery to Deliver Sites and Services at Scale,” which focused on a pilot project in Lilongwe, Malawi, where traditional authorities organize their communities to pool and subdivide land before disposing it in the market.

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