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Joris Piette

Joris Piette

Project Manager and Board Member at Onesto, a Belgian social mortgage lender driving affordable, energy-efficient home financing across Europe.

Aug 13, 2026

0:36
Uh, could you please just explain to, explain to us what Onesto is, what it does, what, what problem it's trying to solve?
0:43
Yes, of course, uh, Richard.
0:45
Um, so Onesto is in basics a social mortgage lender.
0:50
Um, we are, uh, developed since, um, 19- uh, sorry.
0:57
[laughs] We are, uh, born, let's say, in 1894, so we do what we do every day since, uh, then, and we have over 130 years of experience in trying to provide affordable housing for people.
1:12
And it all started, um, for the mining workers which came to the province of Limburg in Belgium, uh, to work in the mines, obviously, and they were in search for affordable houses.
1:26
So our mission stayed the same for the last 130 years.
4:20
Mm-hmm.

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