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Housing’s value chains
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Housing is both social good and business Social good Created for public purpose Business Must be financeable, sustainable
Housing always requires capital finance Cost is 3x‐6x annual income To buy, you must borrow (long)
Longer loan term better housing options
Housing is a manufactured product And increasingly complex, technological, customized
A housing loan is also a manufactured product Complex features
Rate adjustment, incentives, penalties
Accompanying products (e.g. insurance)
Housing policy is a “strategic plan to create business”Whereby government creates business opportunity to shape and grow the market
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RDP housingDurban, South Africa
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Housing markets work only when value chains workAnd when the value chains work, they’re invisible
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• Households want quality housing
• May be “effective demand”• Need financing• Need down payments
• Homes are developed• Built, ready for move in• Designed to meet need• Priced to match market
• Household• Loan• Home• At same time
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To discover value chains, envision ‘customer journey’
“Need” is not effective demand Need is what I want “Effective demand” is what I can pay for, will pay
for, and do pay for
“Effective demand” is not a housing loan Households will pay over time; sellers need cash
‘Effective demand’ means (x) so much per month over (y) so many months
Have to convert stream of future payments into cash up front (via a loan)
Household goes on a ‘demand side journey’
Demand has to be actualizedNeed Effective demand Closeable loan
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Women’s co‐op savings passbookAhmedabad, Gujarat, India
Loan officers meeting borrower familyDelhi, India
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Demand side turns ‘effective demand’ into a financed loan Identify, attract, and qualify the customer
Eligibility, application, subsidy, credit underwriting
Lend the customer the money needed for the home Create the financial product (loan plus features); provide funding
In rental, lend the intermediary (developer/ owner) money to buy
Demand side value chain: Need Loan
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Land by itself isn’t an occupiable home Someone has to manufacture it Manufacturing (usually) takes place on site
Unlike virtually every other consumer good
Multiple activities to ‘manufacture’ home Undertaken in sequence Some steps are intangible
Zoning, entitlements, configuration/ design
Each later step depends on earlier ones
Biggest activity of a developer: Take risk Developer goes on a supply‐side journey
Secure property, gain resources, pass obstacles
Supply has to be actualizedTurn land/ buildability into an occupiable loan
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Single‐wide mobile homeEstonia, Tennessee
Enumeration: plat surveyDurban, South Africa
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Supply‐side value chain: Land Home
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Supply side turns an unbuilt place into occupiable homes Plan the property development
Identify and secure land; trunk infrastructure; site layout; homes design
Take the risk of moving from ideas to expenditure Risk assumption (spend money); construction; completion
Exit by selling to the customer or intermediary (‘offtake’).
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In rental, need becomes effective demand through intermediation Lender lends landlord Landlord rents tenant Lender landlord tenant
Household need Effective demand over time Household undertakes to pay rent Lease obligation (security deposit)
Effective demand over time Financeable loan Landlord borrowers from lender Pledges rents as payments
Rental as a demand‐side offshootLandlord ‘stands in for’ the homeowner
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Residents’ rental co‐operativeMakhurd, Mumbai, India
Housing Association rentalLondon, England
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Development is a function all on its own Not construction, not design Not any of the technical functions
Development means taking all risks Everything from defective land title to
post‐occupancy latent defects/ liability Developers seek to lay off risk
Each risk laid off has a cost Turns inherent risk into counterparty risk
Developers ‘cannot’ build 100% with own cash Too much capital to maintain Too expensive to use own money
Risk assumption requires development finance Entails guarantees to the development financiers
Risk assumption = development financeDevelopers use Other People’s Money … but take everybody’s risks
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Groundbreaking ceremonyVietnamese affordable housing
Boston, Massachusetts
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Two value chains must meet at a closingCalled ‘offtake’ for the developer
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• Household wants home• Can pay for home• Ready to move in
• Home can be moved into• Home can be sold• Price recoups capital• Developer cashes profit
• Household walks away with keys, obligations
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Development plan = C + H + A + F Customer, Housing, Affordability, Financing
Plan the deal before starting1. Choose a target customer profile
Demography, age, income, housing desires
2. Identify a matching configuration type Including location, amenities
3. Do the development arithmetic Expenses and income (subsidy?) Uses and Sources (subsidy?) of funds
4. Envision the financing quilt Which chunk(s) of money, how long, at what cost?
5. Lather, rinse, and repeat Until everything finally clicks
Envision the meeting before startingHousing delivery is a synergy of two manufactured products
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What do they need/ want?What can they afford?
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In functioning markets, all 16 links connect togetherDemand side, supply side, for each household type
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• Many actors along the way
• Many handoffs
• Each relies on the next
• Developers always looking for opportunity
• Find a new customer‐price niche
• Government enables or disables
• Regulates• Incentivizes
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Private actors drive housing and housing finance Enlightened self‐interest: maximize results under rules
as they perceive them
Government runs in parallel at each link Authorize, regulate, enforce against ‘Steer, don’t row’
Change links, handoffs, subsidies Divert market
Government touches housing at all 16 links Supply side is heavily regulated
Title registration, zoning, environmental Building codes, occupancy limits, RESPA
Demand side is heavily regulated Usury laws, consumer protection, HMDA Foreclosure laws
Government influences every link in both chainsEnable, incentivize, enable, regulate, discourage, disable
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Zoning board of appeals (ZBA)Amherst, Massachusetts
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Affordable housing always ‘costs money’ Does not exist in economic nature Inexorable laws of land‐use economics
Median rent/ price median income Housing standards always rising Below‐market people will never afford market housing
Affordability Subsidy (visible or invisible) Can be supply side (cost of homes) or demand side
(cost of money provided to consumer) “How much affordability can you afford?”
Money at scale comes from government Philanthropies, charities act at the margins
125 years of affordable housing pioneering
Government influences every link in both chainsEnable, incentivize, enable, regulate, discourage, disable
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If any link doesn’t work, the value chain is ‘broken’And in many (most?) markets, one or more links doesn’t work
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• If even one supply‐side link is broken
• Homes aren’t created
• If even one demand‐side link is broken
• People can’t borrow to buy
• If several links are broken at the same time …
• Problem may seem insoluble
• Solution: Analyze each value chain by observation• Identify missing links, weak links, uneconomic handoffs• Make ‘maxi‐min’ changes at the weak links only
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1. Collect facts Ask anyone anything; document it
2. Categorize facts by value‐chain link3. Organize links into a graphic display4. Analyze links that could be improved
Missing links, obstructions, blockages Land irresolution, entitlements, NIMBY
Weak link connections (process handoffs) Private‐private, private‐public, public‐public
Economic curbstones Costs > customer journey can afford
5. Identify ‘maxi‐min’ interventions System benefit / political cost = Maxi‐min solution
Need new solutions? Solve value‐chain problemsPart 1: Map the value chain, find its pain points
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1. Choose urgent unmet household type Strong political/ policy need Housing not delivered by current system
Chronic homeless, workforce, veterans
2. Envision the campus typology Residences Common areas/ amenities Services (provided by whom?)
3. Walk the future customer journeys Household type Effective demand Housing typology Viable build strategy
4. Identify and tap maxi‐min subsidy5. Convert to contract term sheets
Private‐public, public‐public
Need new solutions? Invent new ‘customer journeys’Part 2: Pick a needy customer type and a missing typology
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Design review: housing co‐opMumbai, India
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1. Urban housing output of two value chains Demand side Housing loans Supply side Affordable homes
2. Private actors maximize their results Improving ecosystem is government’s job
3. Government influences each link Positively or negatively Smooth handoffs of dropped handoffs
4. Change starts with understanding Map the value chains as they work today Identify links/ handoffs to improve
5. Build new value chains Cross government silos/ funding streams
Points to remember
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Government‐built housingMumbai, India
Home‐based seamstressDelhi, India
David A. [email protected] www.affordablehousinginstitute.org
38 Chauncy Street, Suite 600 Boston, MA 02111 +1 (617) 502‐5913Copyright © 2015 Affordable Housing Institute
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David A. [email protected] www.affordablehousinginstitute.org
38 Chauncy Street, Suite 600 Boston, MA 02111 +1 (617) 502‐5913Copyright © 2015 Affordable Housing Institute
Housing’s value chains