Jessica Robey

This report documents the first two years of the Transaction Support Centre (TSC), an action-research pilot project established by 71point4 in partnership with CAHF to support formal residential property market transactions in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, a lower income neighbourhood of Cape Town.

This Focus Note provides a methodological overview of collecting and analysing data on residential rental markets in Africa. It highlights different data sources that are already available, and alternative data collection methodologies for where there are data gaps.

Housing assets can play a critical role in the resilience strategies of lower-income households.  This is, in fact, one of the goals of the national …