FG to build 2000 housing units in Gwagwalada

The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing yesterday disclosed plans to build 2000 housing units that would be affordable for low-income earners. 

The Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo during an assessment tour of the project, said the unit is a pilot scheme and its success would lead to the construction of others across the 36.

 While adding that the burgeoning population of Nigerians over the years has necessitated the need to invest in affordable housing, he assured that the government would not relent in investing in infrastructure to ensure development is gendered in both urban and rural areas to stem economic growth and curb urban migration.

 “It is a fundamental priority of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to provide decent and affordable houses for the teeming masses of Nigerians especially against the backdrop of rural-urban migration.”

 “The Affordable Housing Development and Management Initiative of 2000 housing units for 2000 families will be situated right here in the Federal Capital Territory and if we get it right, it will be a template that will be replicated all over the county and our drive is to see how we can get it at the lowest cost possible.” the minister said.

 Speaking, the Head of Public-Private Partnership of the Ministry, Abimbola Asein said that the Affordable Housing Development and Management Initiative was sitting on 113 hectares of land to provide affordable houses for Nigerians especially the low- and middle-income earners.

 Asein, an architect, said the initiative was a public, private partnership programme to provide affordable houses for Nigerians.

 She added: “The first phase of the project, which commenced in December 2021  is to put the infrastructure (roads and drainages in place which is about 25% completed and we hope that when the houses are provided, they will be affordable to all Nigerians.”