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The mission of My Liveable City is to ‘Inform, Inspire and Educate’ in the art and science of liveable cities for all, implies implicitly that housing, which forms the largest component of any urban development, must also be available at affordable prices to all the urban dwellers. Because reasonably-priced housing is one of the primary preconditions for making a city liveable. Historically, this has not always been easy to achieve. Not only because it is by definition a difficult proposition to succeed in, but also because the priorities of many governments have been elsewhere. The problem is of such magnitude that the only way it can be tackled will be by approaching it from all sides: by modifying government regulations, by increasing efficiency of professional players and by building bottom-up using community participation. Also, this issue stresses that Affordable Housing will only give dividends in the long term if the other amenities in the city, like urban transport and public spaces, are affordable.