Research highlights the provision of affordable housing, including for the lowest income groups, as an overlooked opportunity for developers and investors willing to think more creatively about the housing market. There are a number of areas where collaboration between private and community sector organisations could enable development of affordable housing, using the networks and resources established by community finance bodies. Beyond community finance, the involvement of regional development banks and municipal authorities to underwrite urban development is an area that requires further elaboration. Key to meeting the scale of housing demand is blending the resources of state, community and private sector stakeholders.
Leveraging investment into low-income housing
This work was carried out under the Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) facility.
ICED supported DFID country offices, central teams and ODA-spending Other Government Departments to deliver DFID’s Economic Development Strategy by scaling up programming and investment in infrastructure and cities. It operated between February 2016 and July 2019.
