National Housing Programme: 7, 315 applications received within 6 days — Fashola
According to him, portal for the National Housing Programme comprising of one, two and three bedroom apartments for sale at prices ranging from N7.2million to N13million was opened at the Headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Housing in Mabushi on Friday last week
Fashola said, ”The applications received so far from prospective House owners are about 2, 315 higher than the available 5,000 housing units available for now.
” This is even as applications have not been received from Nigerian workers in about 20 States “
According to him, the current National Housing Programme is a pilot or demonstration scheme meant, among others, to galvanize private sector participation.
On Housing Housing deficit, Fashola who told the Commitee that solution to it is not just on building of houses but marketing the empty ones, said that the National Housing Programme had not succeeded in the past and some of the houses built then still remain emptyy! due to cultural or financial factors.