NASHO

The National Association of Social Housing Organisations - NASHO - is an independent member-based association of 21 social housing institutions (SHIs) across South Africa and 2 support organisations. NASHO was formed at an inaugural congress held in May 2002 and formally launched by the then National Housing Minister, Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele... NASHO serves the sector with advocacy, information, and training. Maintaining strong links between NASHO and its members is a priority for the federation, in order to reduce the isolation of individual members and to ensure that services and information are widely available... NASHO also promotes the social entrepreneurship of its members who address the issues of homelessness and urban sprawl using market principles to successfully establish sustainable social housing projects that provide safe rental accommodation at very low cost. Given their record of high rental collection, SHIs have proven to be sound investments that produce both..