- GPF is a schedule 3C Public Entity founded in 2002.
- 100% owned by the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements.
- Initial mandate focused on social housing market and over the years evolved to include affordable housing.
- Key mandate was to attract public and private sector capital into low income housing sector.
- The Core Mandate of GPF is to serve as the funding and implementing agent for integrated, sustainable human settlement developments in the Gauteng City Region and custodian of strategic provincial land and/or property transferred to GPF for effective immovable asset management and coordinated, efficient implementation of mega human settlement developments
- The GPF offers innovative funding products designed to share project risk with the private sector.
