Affordable Housing as a Profitable Impact Investment

Deepiga Vigneswaran is an investment professional with experience in the alternative investments space, including pension asset management, real estate asset management, and conducting due diligence of funds and direct opportunities. She currently works in the investment team at EBG Investment Solutions AG in Zurich (Switzerland), a globally active boutique firm advising and managing sustainable private market portfolios for institutional investors.Michael Truebestein is Professor of Real Estate Management and Investments and Head of the Master of Science in Real Estate program at the University of Lucerne (HSLU) in Switzerland. Furthermore, he was elected president of the RICS in Switzerland in 2020. Michael Truebestein is author of various publications in the fields of real estate strategies, real estate investments, asset management, real estate markets and digitization. In 2014, he initiated the annual study on “Real Estate Investments and Asset Management” of institutional investors (in cooperation with the ASIP / Swiss Pension Fund Association) and carried out the world's first tokenization of a property in 2019, the “Hello World” in Baar (Switzerland). In 2021, the media elected him to be part of the 100 leading and most important people in the Swiss Real Estate industry.Matthias Daniel Aepli is a Lecturer at the University of Lucerne (HSLU) in Switzerland with experience in real estate management and investments, corporate finance and risk management. In addition to lecturing in the Master of Science programs in Real Estate as well as International Financial Management and Banking and Finance he is a serial entrepreneur in the real estate sector.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Foundational Concepts.- Chapter 3. Literature Review.- Chapter 4. Research Design.- Chapter 5. Research Analysis.- Chapter 6. Discussion of Results.- Chapter 7. Study Recommendations.