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...

April 12, 2013 Olga Koma
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Investor impacts in Africa: The relationship between China and Africa

Recently I attended a conference hosted by Urban LandMark (an organisation dedicated to making urban land markets work for (and with) the poor, founded in 2006). The conference was held in...

March 14, 2013 Michael Kihato
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Home ownership, tenancy and the HMF product

An interesting statistic struck me the other day when browsing through an article on land ownership in African urban areas. While in Dakar, Senegal, 74 per cent of the slum dwellers are owner...