Sefea Impact SGR S.p.A. - a company focused on spreading the values of impact investing - and Homes4All S.r.l. Benefit Company B Corp - a company managing and designing innovative housing models such as the diffused social housing, which pays particular attention to users in housing emergency - announce with great satisfaction the completion of an important deal that will allow Homes4All to strengthen and develop its business throughout Italy. Sefea Impact SGR S.p.A. has in fact subscribed and paid a capital share that gave it the right to appoint Mauro Zan as Director and has also subscribed and paid a SFP Participation Certificate of € 800,000.
Sefea Impact SGR S.p.A. is an asset management company leader in social and environmental impact investments that saw in Homes4All an opportunity to generate positive changes in the welfare of communities together with a fair economic return, choosing to take on the role of a major investor so able to monitor and facilitate the achievement of the company's objectives.
Homes4All S.r.l. Benefit Company B Corp is an innovative startup beneficiary of the Social Innovation Fund established at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Department of Public Function of the Italian State. Homes4All currently has about 140 members and has just launched an Equity Crowdfunding campaign on the online platform WeAreStarting aimed at increasing its network of private investors sensitive to the logic of urban regeneration, sustainability and social impact.
Massimo Giusti, President of Sefea Impact, said: "For Sefea Impact, the investment in Homes4All S.r.l represents an additional step towards the reduction of growing inequalities and, above all, a concrete action to fight against housing discomfort. We live in a historical moment in which we are experiencing increasing difficulties related to housing and the COVID-19 crisis has unfortunately exacerbated the already serious discomfort, intensifying inequalities and making the costs of living more and more incompatible with the reduction of real incomes. With its action, Homes4All facilitates the housing stability of people and families in difficulty and accompanies them on a path to improve personal and family wellbeing and empowerment".
Giorgio Mosci, President of Homes4All, and Mario Montalcini, CEO of the company, commented: "We express, on behalf of the Company, great satisfaction for this financial operation that will consolidate the intense activity of Homes4All in the diffusion of an innovative model of impact housing. This is an important milestone for the work done in these first three years of activity, which have allowed us to valorise disused real estate assets and at the same time guarantee a decent home to families in difficulty. We consider it absolutely strategic to enhance the Home - Work - Social circuit in a Win-Win process".
(Source: press release Homes4All)
