No poverty
Affordable units priced for working-class income brackets. Rent-to-own pathway turns rent into ownership over five to seven years.
Impact & ESG
Commercial success and social impact are the same thing.
The nature of this business — building homes, creating communities, establishing transparent property infrastructure — means commercial outcomes and human outcomes converge. Impact is not a marketing claim. Impact is the product.
Families housed by Y7
40,000+
Jobs at peak (per year)
1,000
Women in construction
40%
Deficit closed by Y7
0.15%
“Every unit built reduces Uganda’s deficit. Every transparent transaction reduces fraud. Every HomeSure landlord dashboard replaces a WhatsApp group with a professional system. Impact is the product.”
Impact metrics
What we will have built by Year 7.
Numbers below are direct outputs of the five-phase construction strategy plus the HomeSure platform — not press-release projections.
300
Units delivered by Year 3
Phase 1 + 2 — 300 families housed
3,500+
Cumulative units by Year 7
Direct Jolems development
5,000+
Platform-managed units
On HomeSure by Year 7
40,000+
Lives positively impacted
Across East Africa by Year 7
1,000
Construction jobs at peak
Per year — direct employment
40%
Women in construction
Targeted via vocational partners
SDG alignment
Four UN goals. Materially advanced.
Gender equality
40% women-participation target in construction employment via partnerships with vocational training institutions.
Decent work
500–1,000 direct construction jobs per year at peak phase. 200+ property management and broker roles through HomeSure.
Sustainable cities
Mixed-use townships with embedded primary schools, clinics, and green space. Solar, rainwater and smart metering from Phase 5 onwards.
Green construction
Five commitments — built into the contract.
Every Phase 3 and Phase 4 project from Year 3 onwards is delivered to certified green standards. Buyers see it on the title; investors see it on the term sheet; DFI partners see it on the disbursement schedule.
Rooftop solar
Minimum 1.5 kWp per unit on all Phase 5 developments. Excess generation feeds common areas first, then the grid.
Rainwater harvesting
Every rooftop directs to a sized cistern. Reduces dependency on municipal water and lowers tenant utility bills.
EPS modular construction
Lower embodied carbon than burnt brick. Faster build cycles. Less site waste. Standard from Phase 3 onwards.
Local materials priority
70%+ of materials sourced from Ugandan brick, steel and tile manufacturers — protecting margins from FX shocks and supporting domestic industry.
Smart metering
Per-unit prepaid utility meters integrated with HomeSure. Tenants build a credit history with every payment, unlocking future mortgages.
Women & youth
A pathway, not a quota.
The 40% women-in-construction target is not an aspiration — it is a contractor-evaluation criterion. Vocational partners deliver training; HomeSure tracks employment metrics; investor reports include the data quarterly.
Uganda’s construction industry has historically excluded women, not by formal rule but by hiring habit. We change that by partnering with vocational training institutions to feed qualified women candidates directly to our contractors, by setting representation targets in every JV agreement, and by reporting outcomes in every quarterly investor report.
For young Ugandan professionals — the constituency most underserved by the existing housing stock — the rent-to-own programme converts five to seven years of mid-market rent into a deposit on the unit they have been living in. Mortgages are arranged with our banking partners; HomeSure supplies the credit history.
The diaspora investment portal itself disproportionately benefits Ugandan women abroad, who form a significant majority of the diaspora’s healthcare and education professionals. Their capital comes home through a transparent, USD-denominated channel rather than the informal remittance economy.
Climate finance partners
The capital that makes the impact possible.
Green and affordable framing unlocks DFI tranches at 5–8% — capital that funds units a 22% commercial loan never could.
IFC (World Bank Group)
Green affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa — $5–50M tranches.
African Development Bank
SUDAP urban development programme; affordable housing priority.
Agence Française de Développement
Uganda incremental housing programme — $199.5M (2025–2028).
Shelter Afrique Development Bank
Housing finance lines + Uganda Mortgage Refinance Company.
NSSF Uganda
Affordable housing PPPs; actively seeking development partners.
UN-Habitat
Incremental housing and slum upgrading grants.
Reporting commitment
Quarterly investor and impact reports — all on HomeSure.
Every quarter, every investor receives a single dashboard view: financial performance, units delivered, jobs created, women employed, energy generated, water harvested. No hidden tabs, no marketing gloss.
Q1
Reporting cadence
Plus annual audited statements.
Co-build
The housing infrastructure of East Africa.
Capital partners, DFI counterparts, vocational institutions and policy collaborators — engage with the team.