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The federal government allocated N30 billion for its Social Housing Scheme (Family Homes Fund) in 2020. ...

Nigeria’s housing deficit continues to grow and is currently estimated at 17 million. ...

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...

According to the 2019 Population and Housing Census, 80.3% of conventional Kenyan households use iron sheets as a roofing material, followed by 8.2% who use concrete and cement and 5.1% who use grass and twigs. ...

In 2019, the National Housing Corporation and the State Department for Housing built 100 and 430 units respectively for a total of 530 units or dwellings – higher than the 430 units realised in 2018. ...

According to the human settlements department’s 2019/20 annual report, it has provided 76,571 serviced sites and 108,212 housing units between 2018/19 and 2019/20 (Q1 & Q2 to Sep 2019). A serviced site is a piece of land that is connected to water, sanitation and electricity. Recipien...

Since 1994, the government has delivered over 4.7 million housing opportunities. ...

A standard housing affordability measure is that the price of an "affordable" house is in a range of three to five times the average annual household income. The costs of most houses are far outside this range, according to 2013 data by the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). Cou...

According to the 2013 statistics from the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa (CAHF), Nigeria has a housing shortage of 17,000,000, Tanzania 3,000,000 and South Africa 2,100,000. ...