This year’s African Union for Housing Finance Conference under the theme, “Realising Affordability in Global Housing Markets” was a Joint AUHF & IUHF Conference and AGM: Incorporating the 35th Annual AUHF Conference & AGM and the 31st International Union for Housing Finance (IUHF) World Congress. The conference has been growing every year in size, content and reputation. This year, through the partnership with the IUHF, the conference reach reflected content and experience from across the world and is expected to draw in a much wider international profile of delegates. This year’s conference explored the challenge of housing affordability as it is being expressed across the globe. Organised across a series of themes, the presentations articulated the detail of the affordability challenge while also providing case studies of innovation and success. Speakers were drawn from the body of the AUHF, as well as from across the world, bringing global expertise to this question of housing affordability.

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