Emerging disability housing market meeting appetite for impact investment at scale

Published 19th January 2021

Impact investment in Australia is starting to engage mainstream investors, investment banks and super funds. The value of impact investment products in Australia has tripled over the past two years (from $5.7 billion in December 2017 to $19.9 billion in December 2019). Investors are looking to increase their allocation to impact investment over the next five years from 0.7 per cent to 4 per cent of assets under management, which would result in a five-fold increase to $100 billion. A factor limiting the growth of impact investment is the lack of products that have the capacity for investment at scale. Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is one product that is well placed to leverage the private capital available through impact investment. 

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Source:
Di Winkler, 2020, Australia Pro Bono (https://probonoaustralia.com.au)