Mandate

The GPF's key goal is to facilitate and catalyse the development of affordable housing in Gauteng, through leveraging key strategic partnerships with stakeholders, and thereby innovating financial investment opportunities.

It is understood that the GPF has a specific mandate to:

• Form partnerships to address blockages and bottlenecks across the entire lower-cost housing service delivery value chain
• Facilitate integrated developments as per the sustainable human settlements policy framework
• Normalise the social housing market in Gauteng through innovative funding interventions (as a mechanism to entice capital market investment into this market)
• Provide enhanced gearing for private commercial funding
• Facilitate private bank funding into this sector

Vision

To be the pre-eminent provider of public risk capital and the preferred funding partner in affordable housing.'

Mission

As a development finance institution, the GPF proactively leverages affordable housing by:

• Facilitating dynamic collaboration with the ecosystem of public and private sector partners
• Securing new and innovative funding streams
• Gearing private sector finance to ensure better bankability of projects
• Ensuring accountability, monitoring and efficiency in the long-term management of projects

Thereby ensuring that housing financiers enter the affordable housing market on a sustainable basis – in support of sustainable human settlements and quality household life.

Role

The Gauteng Partnership Fund's role is to bridge the gap between government and the private sector on affordable housing projects.

Services

• Rental Housing Fund and Empowerment Property Fund
• Social Housing Fund
• Management of social housing institutional subsidies
• Strategic partnerships projects (banks and development finance institutions)
• Sustainable Housing Fund (integrated housing developments)

Bee Status

Percentage Black Directors: 75%

Percentage Black Staff: 63%

Contact Details

Key contact people: Kotoane Kotoane, CEO

Boni Muvevi, CIO

Ismail Carr, Marketing Executive

Tel: +27 11 290 6900

Fax: +27 11 290 6696

Email: info@gpf.org.za or tanyab@gpf.org.za

Physical address: 82 Grayston Drive, Sandton 2196

Postal address: PO Box 650780, Benmore, Johannesburg 2010

Website: www.gpf.org.za