Subject(s): Housing policy -- Low-income housing -- Government policy -- Slums -- Squatter settlements -- Urban poor -- Regulation and reality : Process of urban growth, urbanization of poverty, growth of slums and informal settlements, international responses to urban poverty, slums and informal settlements, national issues in regulatory frameworks, city level issues in regulatory frameworks, settlement level issues in regulatory frameworks -- Regulation in a global environment, impact of regulatory frameworks, comparing new developments with upgrading -- How do regulatory frameworks affect the urban poor : Security of tenure, infrastructure, housing, home based enterprise, credit and finance -- Reviewing regulatory frameworks : Using sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach, undertaking a regulatory audit for improving access to legal shelter for the urban poor -- Guiding principles for effecting change : Understand and acknowledge the knowledge and information system of people living in poverty, integrate planning and development strategies, guarantee access to information, build institutional capacity