Yeast City Housing was born out of the work of the Tshwane Leadership Foundation, formerly known as Pretoria Community Ministries (www.tlf.org.za). It was registered as a separate legal entity in 1998, in terms of Section 21 of the Companies Act (not for profit). It is also registered with the Social Housing Registrar of Gauteng Province. Yeast City Housing is owned by eight inner city churches.

 

YCH is creating a mix of institutional, communal, transitional, special needs and institutional housing, thereby facilitating a diversity of tenure options and housing types. It will continue to experiment in terms of offering the best possible product at the most affordable price, but also in terms of creating attractive, budget-based housing that contributes towards beautiful inner city places.

Yeast City Housing was the first social housing company in the City of Tshwane and one of the first in South Africa, and is operating within the framework of the Social Housing Bill. It wants to ensure decent, affordable housing, and to contribute to urban regeneration and social inclusion through well-managed social housing.

 

Yeast City Housing maintains that housing is more than shelter:

· It therefore works to develop integrated, healthy neighbourhoods with housing at its core

· It is about building lives, families and communities