To improve access to affordable and sustainable residential housing in South Africa, IFC today announced an investment to support South African residential property developer, Alleyroads, to build over 1,000 rental apartment units in the Johannesburg [...]
SA Affordable Housing received a request from a Cape Town resident around the different options regrading housing. We wrote to Councillor Malusi Booi, Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements who provided this response. Thanks to [...]
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition recently launched the campaign to use timber for housing especially in the affordable housing space. Many African countries are way ahead of us in this regard and during [...]
The Strategic Integrated project progamme recently Gazetted shows that Affordable Housing benefits to the tune of R106-billion. […]
Members of the public have a week to comment on the proposed changes to the City of Cape Town’s Allocation Policy: Housing Opportunities (2015). The proposed changes to the policy relate to the selection of [...]
Affordable housing refers to housing units that are affordable by that section of society whose income is below the median household income. […]
Hundreds of social housing units in Turffontein were launched today by Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba, and MMC for Housing, Meshack Van Wyk. […]
The 27th Kenya Homes Expo took place this weekend, with a particular focus on the theme “Homes for all”, which is in line with the Kenyan government’s promise to significantly boost spend on affordable homes. [...]
One of the largest problems in South Africa is ensuring the delivery of clean, potable water to a wide variety of rural communities. A new invention, inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding, origami, [...]
