Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic is triggering cross-cutting responses from housing sector practitioners who face the challenge of instituting measures to manage the various risks and …
The Transaction Support Centre (TSC) has been operational since July 2018 and since then has seen over 360 clients with various housing-related issues. The most …
Illana Melzer, lead consultant at 71point4, and Kecia Rust discuss the need to focus on specific interventions for South Africa’s affordable housing market to make …
CAHF has undertaken research into housing construction and housing rental value chains in South Africa and other African countries.[1] The estimated economic value chain …
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the persistent state of disaster facing a majority of households across the continent, whether they live in informal …
While housing is explicitly articulated in Target 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is a key component of sustainable development across all of …
Across the world, people are being asked to stay at home and practice social distancing, to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This first strategy …
There are a number of framing concepts that drive CAHF’s work. This blog sets out how we think about the housing asset, and why it …
Casa Minha is an innovative social business that builds various typologies of modular homes targeted at middle and upper middle-income urban Mozambicans. The company is …
Housing Finance in Africa How can Africa expand access to affordable housing? The Centre for Affordable Housing in Africa (CAHF) chronicles the experiences of the …