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THE STATE OF HOUSING MICROFINANCE IN AFRICA
African Union for Housing FinanceAnnual General Meeting and Annual Conference
“Housing Finance - A Public-Private Partnership”
Joaquim Chissano International Conference CentreMaputo, Mozambique8-11 September, 2009
Kecia Rust ([email protected])
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Outline
What is housing microfinance? A growing sector… … with growing demand
Opportunities Challenges
Research commissioned by FinMark Trust in 2009:
Housing Microfinance in Africa: Status, Opportunities and Challenges, by Michael Kihato.
Available on www.finmark.org.za
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What is housing microfinance?
Housing microfinance is … any micro financial tool to support investment in the components of housing, including land purchase or access, provision of or improvement to services, full or incremental house construction, renovation or maintenance. So, credit, savings, insurance.
Housing microloans are generally unsecured loans granted to individual borrowers (sometimes co-signers) intermediate in size (from US$ 100 - $5000) of longer duration (1-5 years) than other microfinance loans given their size. higher in interest than secured loans but with interest rates on par with microloans used to build or improve the home incrementally a niche market product: something special about the housing part… Productive, not consumption loans: enhancing risk management
Less than 30% of households in most emerging countries can afford a mortgage to purchase the least expensive developer-built unit, so, most households build step-by-step, room-by-room
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A growing sector…Demand side indicators High urbanisation rates High real interest rates Tenure security The desire to self build
Supply side indicators Insufficient affordable housing Low penetration of commercial banking & financial services A growing MFI sector Availability of funding: Savings / Capital markets /
International remittances
The Financial Bank in Benin was the first to propose social loans in 1995 to people who could not access formal funding from banks to improve their housing and buy land. In November 1998, Financial Bank created FINADEV as their microfinance subsidiary. Since its start up, FINADEV SA has given access to microcredit to more than 25 000 small borrowers in Benin. Apart from traditional microfinance products, it provides housing loans. FINADEV suffers from similar problems as other microfinance institutions including limitation of funding, a lack of innovation in loan management, difficulty in adjusting to risks, increasing unmet demand as well as weaknesses of MIS and governance.
For example:
in Benin
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Borrowers
A growing sector…
HMF Retailers
Investors: public / private / institutional
Wholesale lender
Private equity firms / hedge funds
Donors
HMF Retailers
Rating Agency
Provides support and spurs on community organisation around
land and infrastructure issues
Acts as a type of guarantor and grades institutions
Bank
NGO, building material suppliers,
etc.
Work individually or together to finance HMF
retailer: loans, equity, guarantees
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Category Description / examples County
Informal, locally established (susu, umpato)
Savings based, locally defined. Approach and use of funds defined by group: individual or collective loans
All countries – lessons?
Community based shelter funds
Usually donor supported (i.e. Slum Dwellers International) largely collective loans, targeted at most poor
Trust Fund of the Housing People of Zimbabwe, WAT Human Settlements Trust in TZ; Angola, Namibia; Kenya
Cooperatives and credit unions (Saccos)
Individual loans for housing often a coincidental focus
NACHU in Kenya; WAT SACCOs in TZ; Namibia; Zambia
Non-bank Microlenders (credit-only)
Origins in housing delivery / shelter NGOs that saw demand for finance
Kuyasa Fund & Lendcor in SA; Zambia Low Cost Housing Development Fund;
Origins in microcredit for SMMEs; housing the next progression.
Uganda Microfinance Ltd; Jamii Bora in Kenya; PRIDE in TZ; others…
Microfinance banks (deposit taking and lending to members and sometimes non-members)
Usually when micro lenders convert to banks to access capital - a focus on housing loans usually comes later
K-Rep in Kenya; Zambia National Building Society; Pulse Holdings in Zambia; African Bank, and Capitec Bank in SA; etc.
State owned banks offering microloans
Trend is now moving away from these as many sustained losses
Ghana, Tanzania, Guinea, Uganda,…
Commercial banks offering microloans
SA banks have offered unsecured loans for some time. The NCR estimates that 10-30% of these are used for housing.
Standard Bank, ABSA in SA; Indo-Zambian Bank; Namibia, Tanzania…
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Second tier
First ti
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A growing sector… lenders
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… with growing demand
Country Population
------------------Average
household size
% ofpopulation
that is(a)urban, or
(b)rural
x
No. of potential
borrowers(assuming
one perhousehold)
=
% ofurban
householdswho mayafford a
loan
x
% ofrural
householdswho mayafford a
loan
x
x
% ofurban
populationnot servedby formalmortgages
% ofrural
populationnot servedby formalmortgages
% ofurban
householdswho maywant a
loan
x
% ofrural
householdswho maywant a
loan
x
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… with growing demand (urban)
No. of potential
borrowers(assuming
one perhousehold)
Averageloan size
(HDI proxyor avg)
x =
Estimated total
value ofthe market
($)
Estimated total
value ofthe market
($)
Avg
$700 (DiD figure)
Morocco
$1150
South Africa
$430
Kenya
$533
Uganda
$942
Ethiopia
$228Benin
$666
Rwanda
$350
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Opportunities Successful growing and profitable microlending sector
Senegal, Burkina Faso Urbanisation and demand
Morocco, Egypt and Algeria (high urban populations) Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria (high urbanisation rates and
large urban centres) Kenya, Congo DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania (urbanisation rates
greater than 3%) Rural demand
Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Congo DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania Favourable regulatory frameworks
Morocco has specific legislation focusing on HMF Use of capital markets
South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya International remittances
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Benin, Mauritius, Eritrea, Malawi, Niger, Congo, Lesotho
MDGs mean governments are interested
Donors, wholesale lenders and investors are all interested
Growing experience
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OpportunitiesWAT Human Settlements Trust,in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. In 1998, WAT established a Savings and Credit Society to prvide credit for housing. The WAT Saccos grew to over 5000 members and about $800,000 in savings. In 2008, WAT signed an agreement with the Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) to undertake a 3.5 year HMF pilot. This will increase the number of housing loans to 1000 per year. This pilot will develop sustainable and replicable loan products and processes. It is expected that it will be spread over a network of 40 Saccos in Tanzania.
Development Workshop, AngolaIn 1999, Development Workshop launched the Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, Angola’s first large-scale microfinance programme, along the Grameen Bank model. They realised that up to 30% of their microfinance clients loans were invested in their housing. In 2005, they developed a housing microloan: KixiCasa. Loan sizes are $800-$2500, repayable over 10 -12 months.
For example…
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Challenges Land & services
Tenure security Sustainable infrastructure
Regulatory frameworks Supportive legislation
Funding Guarantees Information systems
HMF track record Appropriate products: savings + credit + technical support Scaleable models: viable systems Lender capacity & technical support: operations Developmental outputs: the housing ingredients
Product targets: home improvements, backyard rental, incremental housing
Public / privatepartnership opportunities
Role for donors, DFIs, NGOs
NGO / commercialpartnership opportunities
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Conclusion
Total urban demand for Africa is potentially large, but not unmanageable: Total urban demand for Botswana estimated at
$37,5m vs. total pension assets for Botswana in 2005 of $3,58: Less than 1.5% of pension funds used for HMF would meet total urban demand in that country
Total urban demand for Kenya estimated at $295m vs. stock market capitalisation of $6b (in 2005)
Total potential urban demand for the top 40 countries is over $10 billion - this is only 0.5% of the estimated $2 trillion directly lost on sub-prim loans.
Opportunity for government,
private sector, NGOs and
donors to come together to
address Millennium
Development Goals
Accepting incremental housing
on secure tenure as a viable
housing approach, is the first
step.
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Conclusion
Establishing a housing loan product
Cooperative savings and loans for housing
Scaling up capacity for growth
Offering housing support services
Broadening institutional actors
The use of cheap and effective building technology
Public-private-international partnerships
Guarantee finance
Pension funds investment
Ugafode, Uganda
Faulu, Kenya
KixiCredito, Angola
Nachu, Kenya
Kuyasa Fund, South Africa
Development Action Group, South Africa
Centenary Bank, Uganda
Mchenga, Malawi
Zakouara with Shorebank Int’l & USAID’s DCA
WAT, TanzaniaNachu, Kenya
Teba Bank, South Africa