The MHIA Concept

A BETTER WAY TO DELIVER AFFORDABLE HOMES IN AFRICA

MY HOME IN AFRICA (MHIA) is at the heart of a strategic partnership which, together with judiciously positioned regional delivery vehicles, will offer homes to suit specific family and regional needs within existing affordability levels while utilising to mutual advantage local resources, skills and materials.

MHIA will adopt a fully integrated approach using its expertise and resources assisted by local partners and contractors to deliver mixed-use high quality housing developments for low to middle income earners.

Our Housing Value Chain approach will add value at every stage of the delivery process from concept to hand-over while ensuring the highest quality at the lowest cost.It is because we know that delivering tens of thousands of affordable homes to meet critical demand cannot be achieved by any single entity in the world that we have formed a Strategic Partnership that will operate in a synergistic manner with its partners and be capable of dealing with the many problems standing in the way of efficient and rapid delivery.

OUR BUSINESS CONCEPT

Our over thirty years of experience in the housing industry across Africa has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that whatever strategies and methodologies have been tried to advance delivery of affordable housing they have had limited success. It has been all too often that inappropriate methodologies and technologies have been introduced to Africa with undesirable outcomes. Hence our concept was developed in Africa to suit its needs and distinctive characteristics that differ in many respects from Europe or America.

Africa’s housing backlog, current demand and future projected demand have continued to grow at a staggering rate reaching crisis proportions.

The crisis is further being compounded by the movement of people from rural to urban areas that has been estimated by UN-Habitat at about 50 000 persons per day. That equates to one 10 000 house development for every day of the year!

Clearly the situation is untenable and an entirely new approach is needed.

In response the owners, affiliates and partners of MHIA pooled their considerable knowledge and experience to come up with a fresh approach.

Our approach will create truly affordable, sustainable, low carbon footprint communities, villages, towns and cities across Africa with MHIA being a powerful instrument for economic empowerment, large scale housing development, education, job creation and expanding economic activities.