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According to the latest statistics from the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa (CAHF), Nigeria has a housing shortage of more than 20 million units (with 700,000 units needed annually), the Democratic Republic of Congo’s housing backlog is estimated at almost 4 million units, South Afric...

Housing affordability is a function of three things: household income, the price of the house, and the terms of the finance. Across Africa, the confluence of low urban household incomes, high mortgage interest rates and short tenors (where these exist) or no finance at all, results in very low housi...

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 ...

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

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

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. ...