By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development Ahmed Dangiwa said the Tinubu’s administration is targeting 50,000 affordable housing per year .
The Minister made this known at the Ministerial Sectoral briefings to mark the first anniversary of the President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Administration on Friday .
He said the target cut cross increase in the availability of affordable housing units across different income segments by an additional 50,000 per year.
He said the program is aimed at improving living conditions, infrastructure, and basic services in informal settlements.
Others are implementing policies that promote inclusivity and address the needs of vulnerable and marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, women, and the elderly.
“We also aim to facilitate partnerships between the public and private sectors to increase housing production and urban infrastructure development”.
Dangiwa who mentioned some key achievements in his sector which are:
RENEWED HOPE CITIES AND ESTATES
He said already the commencement of of the Renewed Hope Cities and EstatesDevelopment Programme, which Mr. President launched earlier this year has commence and is actualized
“Under phase One, we plan to deliver a total of 50,000housing units across Nigeria. The Cities will have 1,000 housing units per site in one location in each of the six geo-political zones in the country and FCT, while the Estates will have 500 housing units per site in the remaining thirty (30) States.
We have designed the Renewed Hope Cities as integrated living communities targeting all income brackets. They comprise one-bedroom blocks of flats, two-bedroom blocks of flats and three- bedroomblocks of flats; two-, three- and four-bedroomterraces, four-bedroom duplexes, and five-bedroomduplexes”.
NATIONAL SLUM UPGRADE PROGRAM
He explained that Under Phase 1 of the Slum Upgrading Programme, the Ministry plans a total of 26 sites nationwide. This includes four (4) sites in each of the six regions of the country totaling twenty-four (24) and two (2) in the FCT.
“The key services to be provided at the identified sites will include water supply, solar streetlights, rehabilitation of access roads, construction of drainages and waste management and sanitation services amongst others”.
NATIONAL HOUSING PROGRAMME – SALE OF HOMES
The minister reiterated that since the inception of the administration of His President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Renewed Hope Housing programme, we have taken pragmatic steps to fast track the sale and occupation of the housing units across the country.
“We advertised Expression of Interest forms with 4 (four) windows of subscription to give room for all income segments of Nigerians as follows:Outright payment, Mortgage , Rent – to – Own
and Instalmental payment. “
“We received a total of 8,925 Expression of Interest. This comprises 1,294 for Outright Purchase, 2,408 for Mortgage, 2,184 for Rent-To-Own and 3,039 for Instalment payment.
Last month we released the 1st batch of Offer of New Provisional Allocation Letters for Outright Payment for successful applicants” he said
CREATION OF A NATIONAL SOCIAL HOUSING FUND (NSHF)
He stated that in line with Mr. President’s Renewed Hope Agenda to ensure that all Nigerians including the NO INCOME, vulnerable and underprivileged groups have access to decent and dignified uaccommodation, we are also creating the framework for the establishment of a National Social Housing Fund (NSHF). “This is because we believe that access to decent shelter is a not only a necessity but a human right and that all Nigerians across all income segments deserve a decent home to live and grow.”
