May 24, 2013 Allan Kundu
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Meeting the Challenge of the Housing Affordability Gap in Africa

According to UN-HABITAT, all African countries are severely encumbered with the challenge of providing land and affordable housing. Nevertheless, I suggest that inventive solutions to the...

Tenure insecurity and incremental housing: a pictorial exploration

I am involved in a project in South Africa to provide support to Planact, an NGO that works directly with poor communities, capacitating them to engage with the government on development issues. In...

May 16, 2013 Kecia Rust
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Extending the reach of housing finance in Africa – CNBC Africa Interview

This interview was taken during the Africa Urban Infrastructure Summit in April 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJp-PMFOY8  

May 16, 2013 Kecia Rust
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FLISP housing subsidy extends to resale market!

When the President announced the new FLISP (Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme) in his 2012 State of the Nation Address, the groundswell of interest and enthusiasm for this subsidy was not...

The problem is housing

At the heart of the Arab spring was a lack of affordable housing, a bold statement I read in a magazine article, which went on to say that:  the shortage of affordable homes is one of the...

HMF in infrastructure development for housing: some possible innovations?

Housing delivery requires that a number of systems work; finance, land and infrastructure. Housing microfinance works even when many of these systems do not work well. For example, certain segments...