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From 1994 to the end of February 2022, the human settlements sector provided over 3.4 million housing units made up of stand-alone houses and units in multiple storey or multi-unit buildings. According to the human settlements department’s 2019/20 annual report, it provided 76,571 serviced sites a...

Housing affordability is based on three things: household income, the price of the house, and the terms of the finance. Across Africa, a combination of low urban household incomes, high mortgage interest rates and a lack of access to finance, results in very low housing affordability. In 2022, th...

African cities become new homes to over 40,000 people a day. According to the latest statistics from the CAHF, Africa faces a shortfall of at least 51 million housing units. Nigeria has a housing deficit of 28 million units, the Democratic Republic of Congo has a deficit estimated at 3.9 million (or...

From 1994 to the end of February 2022, the South African government's human settlements sector delivered just over 3.4 million housing units. ...

In 2021, 431 housing units were completed by the State Department for Housing bringing the total number of government housing units to 2,613 since 2017. As of December 2021, there were 3,480 housing units under construction by the department, and 424 housing units under construction during the same ...

Sub-Saharan Africa remains mostly rural, with 53% of its population living in rural areas. ...

The federal government allocated N10 billion for its Social Housing Scheme (Family Homes Fund) in 2022. ...

Nigeria is currently experiencing the worst housing deficit and crisis in decades since the 2015 economic recession. The country has a homeownership rate of no more than 20% and a housing shortage of more than 20 million units. ...

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index “measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one. An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a...