The minister of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has charged the Heads of Departments within the ministry to come up with innovative measures and ideas that would help the ministry achieve its mandate of providing affordable housing in the country.
Dangiwa, who issued the directive on the first day of receiving detailed briefings from principal officers of the ministry, charged them to take the lead in researching and developing housing designs that are, in reality, actually affordable, acceptable, and accessible to Nigerians, particularly low and medium-income earners, who constitute over 80% of the Nigerian population According to him, the preferred cost of a house that an average Nigerian can afford should be within the range of N4 million to N7 million.
To achieve this, the minister immediately set up a Committee on Affordable Housing Design and tasked its members to develop a minimum of three different housing concepts that an average Nigerian can afford and directed that the conceptual designs should be organic.
“This was part of a broad range of reform actions that he plans to take to ensure that the Ministry properly re-aligned along the path of enhanced efficiency to enable it to perform its functions optimally towards delivering greater impact as stated in its mandate,” he explained. “This includes ensuring that the ministry, which is mostly staffed by professional Architects and Town Planners, take the lead in researching and developing housing designs that are, in reality, actually affordable, acceptable, and accessible to Nigerians, particularly low and medium-income earners, who constitute over 80% of the Nigerian population,” He said. “We must prioritise the 80% of Nigerians that are within the low to medium income segment.
They too are Nigerians and deserve to live in decent, safe, and quality homes,” he stated. “This means a family can start with a one bedroom and as their incomes increase expand that same house to a two bedroom or three bedrooms over time on the same parcel of land by attaching one or two walls as the case may be,” it added. Dangiwa further clarified that an affordable house is reasonably priced and within the financial means of individuals and families with lower incomes. He said such a house should not cost more than 30% of a household’s income.
This includes rent or mortgage payments, as well as utilities and maintenance costs. “This puts the preferred cost of a house that an average Nigerian can afford at within the range of N4 million to N7 million.”
At the end of the day, some cronies of the officials will buy the houses from the government and resell or sublet to low income earners at outrageous prices.
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DeleteFresh petals and others:
DeleteYour mindset is your reality. Think of measures to make this a reality and post that. If you are not looking to see anything good, it will pass you by.
This morning, you have probably driven on a tarred road, past a streetlight and seen children in public school uniforms. You consumed a product whose production was subsidized by government fertiliser, or water in a bag or bottle produced with government power as that is the only way to make it affordable. You gave your children beverages infused with government subsidized cocoa to nourish them. You probably passed a government facility where people are working, receiving a level of service and getting paid. For a poor nation, it is not godly to say nothing is working considering the budgets that most states which are called civil servant states operate. Contribute to your country for once instead of just asking for it to do more for you having done nothing for it.
Sounds noble
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Nice initiative. I grew up in some of these types of estates in Lagos. From Jakande estate in isolo to Gowon estate in Egbeda to Abesan estate in Ipaja. It was affordable accomodations for mid to low income earners and it made life easier for many families. I pray they can actualise it and ensure it gets to those that really need it.
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