Affordable Housing Institute

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰! In Housing Finance International, Davina Wood and Margaux Morenas write about how blended finance can help bridge the misalignment between developers and investors in Africa.

"The opportunity is not simply to increase capital flows, but to improve how capital is structured and deployed. If aggregation, platform-level investment, and targeted credit enhancement mechanisms expand, affordable housing in Africa has the potential to move from a one-off, transaction-driven activity toward sustained asset-class formation."

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Unlocking blended finance in Africa: Bridging the gap between investors and developers | Affordable Housing Institute

Far from being helpless, the modern displaced person is often well educated, highly skilled, and motivated to improve their environment given even the simplest of foundational support. Therefore, the creation of humanitarian settlements that are intended to function as cities, with the infrastructure, economics, and social conditions that are inherent to a dense and relatively permanent settlement, will allow residents to build equity and regain a sense of normalcy.

Approaching the establishment of humanitarian settlements in this way will provide opportunities to leverage the resources and assets of the displaced – financial, material, and intellectual – to create a better quality of life during displacement, stronger communities, and more sustainable solutions.

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