According to the Bank’s website, recent EBRD initiatives have targeted the Private Rented Sector (PRS) in Poland, addressing housing undersupply exacerbated by structural constraints and the influx of refugees from Ukraine. Additional efforts include SIG-led work on social housing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models in Greece and Poland and Financial Institutions (FI) Banking support for housing finance instruments such as mortgages, covered bonds, and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)s. To scale impact and guide future investments, the Real Estate team has developed an Affordable Housing Technical Cooperation (TC) Programme.

This Programme supports the RE Strategy and aligns with the Bank's Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Economic Inclusion Strategy. It aims to foster inclusive services and public goods, addressing high housing costs that limit equality of opportunity and hinder optimal human capital mobilisation.

The Programme enables a series of assignments designed to:
* Build country-level knowledge on affordable housing provision, including market gaps, regulatory environments, and stakeholder mapping.
* Identify entry points for EBRD investment and advisory projects, with a focus on innovation and scalability.
* Support project structuring through operational solutions, funding mobilisation, stakeholder engagement, and delivery mechanisms.
* Enhance the impact of EBRD transactions through dedicated TC assignments supporting end-users, helping clients and public authorities to deliver on their affordable housing goals, delivering supporting policy reform as well as capacity building.

The TC programme will cover 5 types of assignments:
1. Country Assessments (transaction-enabling): uncover realistic investment opportunities by identifying relevant partners, funding sources, operational solutions, sites and hurdles preventing affordable housing provision, leading for action plans for the sector.
2. Non-transactional project preparation TCs (transaction-enabling): identify and prepare sites to develop affordable housing (including through master planning), lay the ground for investment projects with identified partners (public and private), initiate/develop collaboration between private and public stakeholders for joint projects, identify possible sources of concessional finance.
3. Transactional Project preparation TCs (pre-signing assessments in the context of a due diligence and project structuring process): fine-tune site development scenarios and prepare implementation in the context of a project, fine-tune private-public collaboration arrangements including PPPs, mobilise concessional finance solutions and provide solutions for the financing of affordable housing in the project. For projects that have multiple phases or equity investments with a pipeline, such an assignment may also lay the ground for such follow-on initiatives.
4. Project implementation TCs (post-signing): supporting the setup, operationalisation, and commercialisation of institutions delivering affordable housing solutions--such as housing cooperatives, Social Rental Agencies (SRAs), and dedicated municipal entities, local (municipal) capacity building for replicating projects, strengthening impact on tenants (e.g. supporting them to rent on the commercial market), and policy work acting on the regulatory framework as well as supporting the replication and scaling-up of innovative projects.
5. Project Due Diligence TCs to support projects that deliver on housing affordability.

Investment amount not available at the time of disclosure.

No contacts available at the time of disclosure.

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