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Social Impact Investor for Sustainable Housing in Africa

Affordable housing deficit in Africa is a crisis requiring urgent, innovative and collaborative solutions.

Evrensel Affordable Housing Ltd (EAH) provides sustainable solutions for rapid, large-scale and cost effective delivery of rental or owned affordable housing to low and medium income earners in both formal and informal sectors through financial, technological, cooperative, and strategic innovations across Africa.

EAH advocates demand-driven and strategic partnerships approach to affordable housing for easy access to land and titles, cost effective building technologies, infrastructure, adequate and moderately priced housing finance, guarantees, incentivized and efficient processes.

EAH provides one stop shop services for delivery of affordable housing in Africa and these include advocacy, networking of stakeholders in the housing value chain, integrated housing portal, capacity building, research and development, innovative technologies, land bank, site and services, designs and landscaping, estate development and marketing, facility management, project management, electronic payment and data management systems, knowledge sharing, prop-tech and fin-tech, brokerage and consulting services, credit line facilitation and housing finance syndication, business development, end-user profiling, aggregation and finance, housing vouchers and partnerships.

Strategic Business Units / Value Proposition

EAH, throughits strategic business units, proposes to promote:

  • End to end affordable housing finance
  • Innovative technology for rapid, cost effective, and large-scale development of decent, sustainable and affordable houses across Africa
  • Organisation and empowerment of End Users for effective housing ownership
  • Collaboration among stakeholders in the housing value chain
  • Local content development and building materials manufacturing
  • Continuous learning and knowledge sharing for capacity building among professionals and artisans
  • Digital and ICT Infrastructure for savings, finance, payment, project and data management

Evrensel Affordable Housing promotes empowerment of housing offtakers and provides development services for cooperative societies towards delivering affordable housing. Our cooperative development services include capacity building in cooperative principles and governance, equity savings schemes, social capital formation and development of strong cooperative housing movement in Africa.

EAH also enters into partnerships with other housing stakeholders including governments and its agencies, cooperative societies, engineering, procurement and construction contractors (EPC), land owners, building materials manufacturers, built professionals and technicians, investors and financiers, commercial, mortgage and micro-finance banks, pensions and insurance companies, labour unions, housing associations and corporations, building technology providers, donors and philanthropists, bilateral and multilateral institutions, infrastructure and utility companies.

EAH’s strategic vision is to impact Sustainability in Affordable housing for decent living and communities across Africa. EAH’s strategic mission is to build synergies for rapid and large scale affordable housing solutions, build sustainable communities and enhanced quality of life for Africans.

EAH  organises workshops, seminars, conferences, expos for capacity building and knowledge sharing in furtherance of our strategic objectives.

We offer a wide array of services aimed at simplifying your life

End-to-end Affordable Housing Finance

• Construction Finance
• End Users’ Finance
• Mortgage Finance
• Financing Options / Models / Instruments
• Guarantees
• Special Purpose Vehicles
• Cost of Finance

Innovative Technologies

• Aluminum and other Formworks
• Building Manufacturing
• Waffle Crete
• Modular
• Printing

Empowerment of End-Users

• Housing Associations
• Cooperative Housing
• Equity Savings and Social Capital Aggregation
• Affordable and Accessible Housing Finance
• Sweat Capital and Community Self Help Initiative
• Crowd Funding
• Rent to Own Housing
• Social Housing
• Retrofitting
• WASH –Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Stakeholders’ Collaboration & Partnerships

• State and Federal Governments and Policy Makers
• Land Owners, Development Control Authorities
• International and Multilateral Development Agencies
• Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Finance Companies
• Original Equipment Manufacturing Companies
• Building Materials Manufacturing Companies
• Legal, Architectural, Engineering Professional Institutions
• Infrastructure, Utilities & Telecoms
• Philanthropies
• Pensions & Insurance Funds
• Equity & Social Impact Investors

Local Content / Building Materials

Develop Capacity and Partnerships for domestic manufacturing of Building Materials:
• Cement
• Doors
• Roofing and Roofing Sheets
• Electrical Cables and Fittings
• Plumbing Pipes and Fittings
• Tiles and Ceiling
• Building Equipment and Tools
• Steel, Iron and Aluminum
• Furniture and Woodworks

Domestic Capacity Building

• Continuous research, learning and knowledge acquisition
• Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurial Training
• Testing and Certification Programmes
• Access to Online Resources
• Internship, Mentoring and Project Teams
• Promote Young Professionals Enterprises
• Mandatory Technology Transfer Programmes for Foreign Contractors

Digital & ICT Infrastructure

• Digital Platforms for Savings, Loans and Payment
• Electronic Database of Housing Needs and Demand
• End Users Affordability Profiling
• Database of Contractors and Vendors
• Digital Project Management and Finance
• Housing Artificial Intelligence

Our team is comprised of genuinely gifted minds

Chairman, Evrensel Impact Group / Evrensel Affordable Housing

Anthony Moore

CEO, Evrensel Affordable Housing

Saheed K. Yemi Adelakun, DBA

Yemi Adelakun is the Founder / CEO, NISH Affordable Housing Ltd and the Convener, Affordable Housing Finance & Innovation Summit (AHFIS). Committed to delivering large scale affordable and sustainable housing across Africa through financial and technological innovation, knowledge sharing, collaboration and synergy among industry stakeholders. www.nahfis.com
CEO Africa, Evrensel Impact Group

Derrick Emeka Randall

Director

Glen Jordan

More than 85% of income in Africa is from informal sources, yet to access traditional housing finance formal proof of income is required. As the co-founder of Empowa, Glen is addressing this excluded 85% while ensuring market related returns on capital, transforming the African climate-smart affordable housing finance market through innovation and new technologies. https://empowa.io.
Director

JP Lloyd

Enough Talk, Let's Build Something Together