The housing industry challenge is enormous and traverses the building materials and mortgage services. Honestly, there a lot of building materials not made in Nigeria and I think the duties on these materials should be reduced and also heavy duties can be put on the high-end luxury materials. Even the local manufacturers of building materials need to be given support by the government. Over the years, in advanced countries housing associations and cooperatives have made laudable impact in the provision of social housing and this should be encouraged by the government to come on board if social housing will head towards the desired destination. There are many models of social housing both from the rental and purchase angle that will take a whole newspaper to explain.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 03:56 UTC