The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has revealed that the much-talked-about Renewed Hope Social Housing Programme would soon be unveiled by President Bola Tinubu as part of measures to address the housing needs of Nigerians regardless of class or income status.
The Minister disclosed this while receiving a delegation from Creative Sphere Limited at the Ministry headquarters in Mabushi, Abuja, on Thursday.
Arc. Dangiwa said that the Renewed Hope Social Housing Programme had the objective of providing shelter to low-income earners, the unemployed, the vulnerable members of the society, as well as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the formal and informal economy.
Apart from this, the Federal Government had a plan to construct 100 housing units in each of the 774 local government areas across the country, amounting to 77,400 housing units. The project shall be delivered in one year since its launch.
Description of the program as visionary, the Minister noted that it attested to the commitment of President Tinubu in ensuring that everyone in Nigeria gains access to comfortable housing, and also reflected his zeal for a better Nigeria whereby even the poorest can own an inhabitable house.
