The 2020 Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook is now available online!
Featuring a focus on the impact of COVID-19, the Yearbook was launched 3 November 2020 at the 36th Annual Conference of the African Union for Housing Finance.
Read moreWe thank all essential sector workers, helping to contain the rate of Covid-19 infections!
The Covid-19 pandemic challenges all of us to think carefully about the role of the home in supporting health and wellness. We wish all of our partners, colleagues and friends strength as they manage the effects of the pandemic in their own local contexts. Visit the SA Covid-19 Resource Portal https://sacoronavirus.co.za
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The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) is an independent think tank working to support and grow housing markets in Africa for increased affordability.
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CAHF's programme of work operates across three broad platforms - Knowledge Production, Advocacy and Market Development.
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CAHF's research, market intelligence and lobbying work extends across the continent, with particular focus on the following countries - Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
Explore the continentHousing Finance in Africa Yearbook 2020
The 11th edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook covers 55 African countries, and is available in both French and English.
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If you own property through a state housing programme, you need a will https://t.co/d9dgmZuoTJ - Read about our work with the Transaction Support Centre in South Africa, in partnership with @71point4 - a critical intervention in making low income households' housing assets work.
Calling all #data lovers - come drive the Data Agenda for housing in Africa! - applications close on Monday, 6 September 2021 - Job opening: Data Agenda Programme Manager https://t.co/YbHxIsnKYa
Join us on Wednesday for a test drive of our new dashboard, developed by @71point4 with support from @FSDAfrica - very excited to showcase @USAID 's Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) #data in this new way. @AUHF_Housing Webinar Series. To register https://t.co/xoNOrKdfEK https://t.co/HPhmNH9erJ
CAHF is hiring! Do you love data? Are you a champion of #OpenData and committed to working affordable housing markets in Africa? Do you want to drive CAHF's Data Agenda for Housing in Africa? Deadline is 6 September 2021. https://t.co/YbHxIsnKYa @FSDAfrica @reall_int https://t.co/kSW9B5pSnt
Dear all, CAHF is very pleased to share the flyer of the 2nd French edition of our Affordable Housing Finance Course in SSA, happening in Dakar from Sept 12th to 17th. Registration => https://t.co/9iLLX6Vs08
For queries, contact Marine Cavaillon at
marine @housingfinanceafrica.org https://t.co/pzGC8U0NUM
Le CAHF est heureux de partager le flyer de la 2è édition FR du cours sur le Financement du Logement Abordable en Afrique SSA, à Dakar du 12 au 17 sept. Inscription => https://t.co/9iLLX6Vs08
Pour plus d'infos, merci de contacter Marine Cavaillon à marine @housingfinanceafrica.org https://t.co/YFpReomHMB
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On the street where I live...- In its demonstration phase Casa Minha has constructed modular houses, designed for incremental extension, and targeted to the urban middle and upper middle class market. This Model B type house can have between 2 and 3 bedrooms. The house occupies 100 square metres on a plot size of 115 square
- The Casa Minha project is modelled on densification, supply in exchange and cross subsidisation. This is a Model A, twinned type two bedroom house, with two two-storey homes built on the same plot of land in a neighbourhood that connects to prime areas of Maputo city. Once sold, one home
- Casa Real’s developments have demonstrated the possibility of building affordable homes in Beira. Pictured here are two one bedroom homes valued at US$10 000 each. Each unit is 22 square metres and is complete with a foundation for incremental expansion. Given the housing affordability profile and challenges of end user
- Casa Real in the City of Beira has ten fully complete affordable houses on its site, which is in close proximity to the main highway and access to public transport routes. The plot sizes are an important part of the affordability impact. The local municipality approved for the homes to
- Audacious effort by Ithemba Property to bring residential into the eastern part of the Johannesburg CBD. Jewel City is an inner city conversion and new build effort: shops, schools, a clinic, businesses, and affordable rental. This is the new brand of inner city living: tiny flats that don’t feel tiny,
