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One million houses needed annually to reduce 17m deficit, says PMB

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria requires one million houses annually to reduce its national housing deficit of about 17 million and avert a housing crisis by the year 2020.
Buhari spoke yesterday during the 35th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and International Symposium of Shelter Afrique in Abuja.
The President, who was represented at the occasion by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, said the Federal Government has earmarked N40 billion in the 2016 budget to implement a comprehensive housing programme in the country.
According to him, “the government intends to directly supply housing stocks in urban areas across all the geo-political zones under its Comprehensive Housing Programme”.
His words: “The Federal Government would also continue to prosecute overall housing policy stand which recognizes the government as active facilitator of private sector-driven housing sector”.

In a statement issued by Deputy Director / Chief Press Secretary, Muhammad Sule, Buhari added that the Federal Government is considering vibrant reforms in land administration, urban planning/renewal and mortgage housing finance under its new comprehensive housing programme to improve housing delivery in Nigeria.
The president said the current realties of housing shortfall, challenges housing developers in Nigeria and Africa as a whole to re-assess their strategies and evolve fresh methodologies to meet the exigencies of these times.
He cited the successes recorded in the East and Central African Region by Shelter Afrique, a pan-African Finance Institution, through its ‘Exemplar Housing Initiative’; saying its potential benefits could be better harnessed by a wider housing market to achieve housing for the low income earners in other parts of Africa.
Buhari lauded Shelter Afrique’s commitment to further popularizing current best practices for housing delivery in Africa and therefore called on the Board and Management of the continental Finance Institution to embrace the opportunity of opening new frontiers by investing in low-income houses in Nigeria.
He also appealed to other development partners to invest more in the Nigerian Housing sub-sector to deepen the vibrancy of the country’s housing market.
“I expect that this meeting will come up with a consolidated strategy that would assist national governments across Africa to develop robust systems to deliver affordable housing to the low income on sustainable basis,” the President stressed.
While welcoming guests to the AGM, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola thanked the delegates for attending the conference and urged them to brainstorm and find lasting solution to housing challenges in Africa.
The Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of Shelter Afrique, Mr. James Mugerwa, said the organisation has invested 50 million USD in the sector and has created 30 million construction workers across the continent.



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