Green Affordable Housing Finance

The Green Affordable Housing Finance instrument, piloted by Reall, aims to create a self-sustaining housing finance ecosystem for climate-smart affordable homes. It employs a dual-facility approach: an Enabling Environment Facility (EEF) providing technical assistance and construction finance to developers and lenders, and a Guarantee Facility to de-risk construction and mortgage loans. The instrument targets populations with low and informal incomes and requires all supported homes to meet industry standard green certification. During its five-year pilot in Kenya, the Guarantee Facility is expected to mobilize USD 37 million in lending, with a long-term scale-up goal of supporting over USD 400 million in local private loans over 15 years.

• The Green Affordable Housing Finance instrument uses a coordinated deployment of construction and mortgage loan guarantees to incentivize local lenders to fund both the building of green affordable homes and their purchase by low-income households.
• The instrument is structured around two components: an Enabling Environment Facility (EEF), which provides technical assistance and construction finance to help developers achieve bankability and helps lenders adopt alternative credit assessments, and a Guarantee Facility, which de-risks construction and mortgage loans.
• Reall will first pilot the instrument in Kenya before expanding into South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, requiring all homes to meet industry standard green certification.
• The Guarantee Facility has specific mobilization targets: USD 37 million in lending activity during the five-year pilot phase and over USD 400 million in local private loans over a 15-year period upon scale-up.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (n.d.). Green Affordable Housing Finance. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GAHF-overview.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Green Affordable Housing Finance. n.d. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GAHF-overview.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiativendgreen, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Green Affordable Housing Finance}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GAHF-overview.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }