In 2020, Housing Finance International published a prize-winning research article that presented practitioner insights and learnings on delivering affordable housing and affordable mortgage finance for people on low incomes in urban Africa and Asia. This did so through a focus on Reall, an innovator and investor in climate-smart affordable housing for the bottom 40% of the income pyramid in urban Africa and Asia.

Reall invests in credible African and Asian developers to demonstrate the socioeconomic impact and commercial viability of affordable urban housing, while simultaneously working in strategic partnerships to tackle market bottlenecks and crowd in new actors and resources into the affordable housing space. The 2020 article presented case studies of innovative financial partnerships by three of Reall’s in-country partners: