International Housing Solution has so far provided funding to 25 projects and about 25 000 units across all the major urban centres in South Africa

A new network of infrastructure practitioners in the public and public sectors was launched on Tuesday to address Africa's large and growing infrastructure gap, which is estimated at US$31 billion a year.

International Housing Solutions (IHS), which launched a Southern Africa Workforce Housing Fund with R1,3-billion in overseas capital, has received R210-million additional investment from the Development Bank of SA