The Presidency on Sunday said about 20 State governments have indicated interest in joining the housing element which will build about 300,000 affordable houses for Nigerians in the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP).
A presidential spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said two of the 20 States that included the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had offered free land for the constructions of the houses taking off this week.
Akande said this week the portal ‘Nshp.gov.ng’ to invite Nigerians interested either as beneficiaries of the Social Housing or as delivery partners would be launched by the Family Homes Fund, the Federal Government agency designated to implement the scheme.
He said the States that supported the implementation of the Social Housing scheme which will offer houses at low prices such as between N1.8m to N2m included Osun, Ogun, Enugu, Delta, Bauchi, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Plateau, and FCT where the first set of construction sites had been indicated.
He added that others like Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Cross River, Sokoto, Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina, Borno and Yobe States that are now working towards joining in a similar vein.
The presidential spokesman said under the Social Housing Plan, 300,000 low cost houses would by itself create 1.8 million jobs in the housing sector and beyond, while as indicated under the ESP approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has now committed N200B facility for the Social Housing.
