A social housing institution your zone can work with.

Restructuring zones need accredited institutions to turn them into homes. Funders need an owner whose governance they can audit. Communities need a landlord who will still be there in twenty years. This page is for all three.

Where we are: We are preparing for SHRA accreditation. No homes or allocation waiting list are available yet. You can ask to be notified about future opportunities. Our intended first project is in a Gauteng restructuring zone; none has been named.

Three partners, three conversations

What we bring and what we ask are different for each. None of them requires a commitment to start talking.

Municipalities and provinces

Delivering in your restructuring zone

We bring: a non-profit owner with a board-adopted charter and a six-gate project process (adopted); a tenant and property management policy suite written to the regulator's standard (adopted by the board on 8 September 2026); and an allocations framework within it that can carry the municipality's own targets (adopted; it starts operating when the first waiting list opens).

We ask for: a site or land partnership inside a declared zone, a municipal support letter at pre-feasibility, and a seat at the table when bulk services and planning are sequenced.

Open a municipal conversation

Landowners and developers

Land, or a joint project

We bring: a route to the social housing capital grant for well-located land once the institution is accredited, a long-term owner-operator for the completed building once it is built, and an adopted stage-gate process that gives a landowner certainty about how and when decisions are taken.

We ask for: land control evidence (title, lease, option or development rights), a site memorandum, and openness to a structure that keeps the homes in the rental stock.

Propose a site

Funders and lenders

Capital with controls

We bring: a five-year integrated financial model with sensitivity analysis (prepared; unit figures populate once a first project is named), an audit and risk committee (constituted under the adopted board charter), an internal financial controls policy (adopted by the board on 8 September 2026 within the Governance and Operations Policy Manual), and a project pipeline that will only ever be inside restructuring zones.

We ask for: early conversations about the capital stack for the first project, so that the funding concept at Gate 3 reflects real terms rather than assumptions.

Start a funding conversation

The engagement pathway

Every conversation follows the same four steps, so that nothing is promised informally and everything material is minuted.

Step 1Introductory discussion
A meeting or call with a director. No documents needed. We explain our stage honestly and listen to what you need.
Step 2Information exchange
We share our governance pack (board charter, committee terms, policy suite with adoption status, the SHRA submission bundle index and named director biographies) and the status panel. Request it from admin@mcshd.co.za; the Chairperson answers. You share what you can about the site, zone, funding or community. Confidentiality is agreed in writing if required.
Step 3Screening and board note
The opportunity is tested against our seven criteria and recorded in a board note. You are told the outcome either way.
Step 4Gate 1 and a written framework
If the board passes Gate 1, we agree a written framework for the next stage: a memorandum of understanding, a land agreement or a term sheet, as the case requires.

What we will not do

Boundaries a partner can rely on

The Sandton skyline in the distance above a wide canopy of trees, with a jacaranda in purple bloom in the foreground — Sandton from the north, under jacarandas. Gauteng is where the work is, and where affordable rental is scarcest. Illustrative view of Gauteng; not a Magna Carta site. Photograph: Aleph500Adam, Sandton, Johannesburg, 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0

We do not take a development profit out of a social housing project. Surpluses stay in the institution for maintenance, reserves and the next project.
We do not name partners, sites or funders publicly before a written framework and consent exist.
We do not accept money from prospective tenants, and we do not allow anyone to sell places on a waiting list.
We do not claim accreditation, approvals, land control or funding that we do not hold. Our status panel is dated and reviewed at every board meeting.

Talk to a director

One mailbox reaches the board. Tell us who you are and which of the three conversations you want to have.

Contact details admin@mcshd.co.za