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by ehsan on April 10, 2009
Taffy become the CEO of the Johannesburg Housing Company (JHC) in 1996. According to INSEAD, the company is an urban regeneration agency that operates in the poorer areas of Johannesburg. Its work includes tackling slums, carrying out refurbishments and conversions, and building new projects. It has a financial investment in inner city properties that is close to 360 million rand (US$36.4 million).
According to Adler, the organization's three main goals are to improve the buildings where people live, and once that has been achieved to then tackle the quality of people's lives, and to improve their neighbourhoods.
The JHC has developed around 2,800 homes, which it estimates is an eight per cent increase in Johannesburg's housing stock in the inner city. It now provides homes to more than 9,000 men, women and children.
Today, Adler, who's in his late fifties, is widely acclaimed in South Africa for winning international awards and for his outstanding pioneering work in housing. If you want to read more about his work, you can go here.
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