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Tracking Mortgage Loan Performance by Market Segment in South Africa: 2004-2014
Illana Melzer from Eighty20 together with CAHF and the FinMark Trust launched the latest research on mortgage loan performance in South...
Soweto Housing Survey
Eighty20 conducted a survey of almost 200 households in Orlando West, Soweto, between March and April 2014. The survey explored housing investment...
Rental Markets in Africa Infographic
We are currently undertaking a study to understand the size and characteristics of residential rental markets in Africa on behalf of the Centre for...
Housing Demand in South Africa
On 12 October 2015, Illana Melzer presented an overview of the housing sector in South Africa at a workshop jointly hosted by the Department of...
South Africa: Informal settlements status
Eighty20 was commissioned by the Housing Development Agency to develop and support an enumeration system for using in profiling informal settlements...
Access to and performance of FSC loans – a review of available data
This presentation was prepared for CHAF and presented by Illana Melzer at the 2010 FinMark Forum. This work is based on the Access Frontier series...
How low can you go: Charting the housing finance access frontier
This paper is the second in the Access Frontier series in South Africa prepared by Illana Melzer for CHAF and FinMark Trust. The research applies...
What is an informal settlement?
For the past five years Eighty20 has worked closely with the Housing Development Agency to enumerate and profile informal settlements across South...
Housing investment in low-income areas of South Africa
Census and recent Community Survey data highlights a significant shift in the way households are housed in South Africa. According to the 2001...
Affordable housing: A Tafelberg perspective
The furore over the sale of the Tafelberg site by the Western Cape Department of Public Works has highlighted key issues regarding affordable...
Time for an Open Data Revolution in Affordable Housing in South Africa
A number of regulators and quasi regulatory bodies collect and publish a range of datasets relating to housing and housing finance in South Africa....










