At the 9th Annual Affordable Housing Africa Conference, Kecia Rust, Executive Director & Founder of CAHF, explored key challenges and opportunities in South Africa’s affordable housing sector. This presentation highlights:🏡...
Data is critical in the development of any sector. It informs policy decisions by government as well as investment decisions made by private sector participants including funders and developers. In...
This presentation was made at CAHF’s 10th Anniversary Celebration where we commemorated a decade of impactful work in affordable housing across Africa. The presentation showcased our journey over the last...
On the 25th of January, 2024, GIZ, CAHF, and the University of Rwanda held the inaugural Workshop in Kigali under the Urban Lab Project. The goal of the Urban Lab Project is to strengthen the provision...
On the 25th of January, 2024, GIZ, CAHF, and the University of Rwanda held the inaugural Workshop in Kigali under the Urban Lab Project. The goal of the Urban Lab Project is to strengthen the provision...
On the 25th of January, 2024, GIZ, CAHF, and the University of Rwanda held the inaugural Workshop in Kigali under the Urban Lab Project. The goal of the Urban Lab Project is to strengthen the provision...
Pension funds have a unique opportunity to invest in housing, offering both financial returns and social benefits. Housing investments provide stable, long-term returns aligned with pension funds’ liabilities. Pension funds...
Earlier in the year, 71point4 embarked on a review of the housing data landscape of 3 priority countries in Africa: Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. In this document, we focus on the outcome...
At the Africa International Housing Show held in Abuja in July 2023, 71point4 delivered a presentation on structuring Nigeria’s data landscape with principles for tidy data. You can access the...
This presentation was made at the 7th Meeting of Community of Practice for Human Settlements Finance on 23 March 2023, held online and convened by SALGA, the Cities Support Programme...
In June 2022, the World Bank appointed the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF), together with 71point4, Fatou Dieye, and Gmaurich Insights to undertake an assignment profiling the status of affordable rental housing and...
CAHF, Reall and 71point4 have been collaborating on the ‘Data Agenda for Africa’, interrogating the availability of key data relevant to housing at the national, urban and city levels, and then...
Convened annually around Africa Day, the Rise Africa 2022 Festival was held from 23 - 25 May. Rise Africa brings together thinkers, doers and enablers from across the continent and...
The 6th Community of Practice on Human Settlements Finance, held virtually 17 March 2021, focused on the impact of COVID on residential property markets at national level, drawing on analysis...
Since 2021, eThekwini’s Research and Policy Advocacy Department (RAPA) has been working in partnership with CAHF to improve metro data for human settlements and urban planning. These presentations were part...
In 2019, City of Tshwane’s residential property market was valued at R536.8 billion. Of the over 570 000 residential properties in the metro, 41% were valued below R600 000. Government-subsidised...
Research on the impact of housing on the economy is a subject of interest around the globe. CAHF has developed a unique methodology, suited to the African context where data...
Unauthorised occupation of land and its implications has become one of the biggest challenges affecting planning and development including but not limited to housing. The number of occupations has increased...
Market intelligence and data is fundamental market infrastructure for the housing finance sector. A key constraint undermining private sector participation and good policy engagement in affordable housing is the availability...
A joint strategy for the FSD Network in Kenya, encompassing FSD Kenya, FSD Africa and FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), was developed with the support of CAHF, and in October 2020, FSDAi ‘s Investment Committee...
A joint strategy for the FSD Network in Kenya, encompassing FSD Kenya, FSD Africa and FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), was developed with the support of CAHF, and in October 2020, FSDAi ‘s Investment Committee...
https://youtu.be/bLQv-2mJqHU Uganda’s housing deficit is estimated to be 1.6 million units, with an annual requirement of between 180 000 and 210 000 units. Given projected urbanisation and population growth, Uganda’s...
The AUHF in partnership with Proptech 54 Accelarator and CAHF co-hosted a Proptech Masterclass on the 13th of June, 2023. Dr.Roland Igbinoba delivered a capacity building and thought leadership master...
The Finance-Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISP) subsidy provides support to households in the ‘gap’ market, who earn too much to qualify for a fully-subsidised house from government, but too little to be...
Kecia Rust delivered the presentation at Shelter Afrique’s 39TH AGM and Symposium held on the 15th of September 2020. The intention of the presentation is developing integrated urban and local...
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 housing programme which, since 1994,...
As economies across Africa grapple with the health and lockdown effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their populations and businesses, the housing sector offers an opportunity to overcome key risk...
The delivery of affordable housing over the past twenty-six years has had a profound effect on South Africa’s residential property market: the majority of properties in South Africa’s residential property...
As part of our Housing and the Economy series, CAHF undertook a focused analysis of the economic impact of South Africa’s government subsidised housing programme in 2019. The report, written by David Gardner, Keith...
In partnership with Cities Support Programme (CSP) and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), CAHF has recently established a Community of Practice (COP) on Human Settlements Finance. The purpose of the COP...
Players, success stories and initiatives in North, West, East, Central and Southern Africa. Kecia Rust delivered this presentation at the API Summit in Johannesburg in 2019. The presentation sets out the investment...
Kenya’s Affordable Housing Programme was launched in December 2017 as one of the national government’s four pillars of growth, in the President’s Big Four Plan. The AHP promises to deliver 500,000...
TUHF Limited hosted an Inner City Property Conference on the 30th of October 2019 which gathered industry players from the public and private sector involved in South Africa’s inner city development. Kecia Rust’s presentation...
Delivered by David Gardner, consultant to CAHF, at the Annual Conference of the African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) and International Union of Housing Finance (IUHF) in Cape Town on 5 November...
This presentation is on emerging lessons from individual household investments, drawn from the Uganda Housing Investment Chronicles project. The project was presented by Dorothy Baziwe at the Second BOVA Network meeting held in Nairobi,...
The TSC is a pilot action-research initiative established by CAHF and 71point4 to support secure tenure in low-income property markets. The physical advice office is based in in the Desmond Tutu Sport &...
