Key questions this article answers:
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The government set a target for it and the private sector to build one million homes yearly in its 2021-2025 National Development Plan. But what is driving this target?
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Between 2017 and 2020, the federal government built approximately 10,000 homes, about 2,500 in a year. To what extent do these houses contribute to solving the housing deficit in Nigeria?
You don’t have to look too far to know that inadequate housing is an issue in Nigeria. People living in informal settlements, overcrowded (face me, I face you) quarters, squatters, the displaced, the list can go on, explain the extent of this problem.
Yet, elation over the news about President Muhammadu Buhari commissioning 748 housing units in Abuja and similar ones is hard to find. Because for starters, the poor state of housing in Nigeria is a multifaceted problem.
To elaborate, in 2019, the Minister of
