With support from the Cities Support Programme of National Treasury, the Citymark project undertakes analysis of South Africa's residential property markets, with a particular focus on the lower end of...
With support from the Cities Support Programme of National Treasury, the Citymark project undertakes analysis of South Africa's residential property markets, with a particular focus on the lower end of...
This paper is the fourth in a series of four papers that together look at how to use public property to realise value towards the integration and spatial transformation of...
There is a general concern in government and amongst communities about the lack of public land release and development, specifically for affordable and low-income housing in strategic areas in South...
Currently the primary approach to using properties as a tool for integration has been to deliver affordable and low income housing on public land. Integration and transformation need to be...
This report presents the findings of a study to implement a standardised methodology to calculate the cost of a benchmarked (standard design and specification) ‘CAHF house’ in thirty cities in...
With support from the Cities Support Programme of National Treasury, the Citymark project undertakes analysis of South Africa's residential property markets, with a particular focus on the lower end of...
Part of CAHF's Housing and the Economy project, this study deepens our understanding of how the construction value chain impacts the affordable housing market in Kenya, and how this in...
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini since 19 April 2018, is a small landlocked country in Southern Africa bordering South Africa and Mozambique. It has a population of 1.2 million...
While developing countries and the donor community have in recent years placed considerable emphasis on strengthening access to financial services and the design of national financial inclusion strategies, the traditional...
There is a broad recognition that access to affordable housing finance is critically important, not least because of the demand for housing and the importance of housing for the well-being...
Angola is one of the fastest urbanising countries in Africa, putting extreme pressure on the need for housing in urban areas. Its housing deficit was estimated at more than one...
The political and economic instability of recent years in Zimbabwe has led to infrastructure and regulatory deficiencies, and the housing backlog is estimated to be 1.3 million units and growing....
Madagascar is recovering from its most recent political crisis (from 2009 to 2013) and the economy has been strengthening since the return to constitutional order in 2014. As the World...
During 2018, CAHF worked with the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop a ‘Deep Dive’ report on the catalytic role the affordable housing sector could have...
This report forms part of a series of reports on Housing and the Economy which utilise a pioneering methodology developed by CAHF to describe, quantify and compare the impact of...
Understanding how developing economies build housing, and how housing contributes to the growth of developing economies, is a key requirement for implementing evidence-based economic, housing and housing finance policy. Yet, in...
The Tanzania mortgage market registered an increase of 29 percent following a marginal decline in the second quarter of 2018, according to the Mortgage Market Update released on 30 September...
The quarterly mortgage market update for Tanzania was released in June, 2018 by the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) and the Tanzania Mortgage Refinance Company Ltd. (TMRC). Some of the key...
The rapid expansion of urban areas is of particular concern for decision-makers and it is important to deepen an understanding of emerging land use practices –which include backyarding. This is...
Tunisia has a highly developed housing sector which has been a key focus of public investment and provision since independence. Since the revolution, Tunisia has has established new legislative and...
Morocco's housing sector has changed significantly over the past ten years, and is becoming increasingly attractive to international investors and local developers. This report includes insights and analysis into the...
The relatively recent attention to housing and property investment in West Africa has been driven by favourable economic growth and a growing urban middle class. Nevertheless, the data available on...
