Kecia Rust is the housing finance theme coordinator with the FinMark Trust, and has founded FinMark Trust’s Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa. She is a housing policy specialist and has provided strategic support to governments in South Africa in the development of national, provincial and local housing policy for the past 18 years. Kecia is particularly interested in access to affordable and appropriate housing finance for low-income earners and the functioning of affordable property markets. She led the establishment of the Affordable Land and Housing Data Centre, a joint initiative of FinMark Trust and Urban LandMark, which seeks to promote investment in affordable housing in South Africa.
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