Fashola is building a few thousand units of N7million houses and calling it affordable in a country where less than 5% earn up to N3million per annum, and housing deficit is over 22million. The disconnect from reality in our governance is so wide that it only has to be ment.
Responses here show that we may never solve the social problems facing majority of Nigerians- so far as we keep using our personal socioeconomic status to assess the majority. Govt is about IMPACT- you can’t solve a problem by excluding the majority of the victims of the problem.
Affordability &/or low cost is relative to income - which firstly in Nigeria is low, then the major problem- housing deficit affects mostly those with low-zero income. These guys can’t afford 7m. This approach is simplistic. The solution is a harder route. But we like simplistic
our problem requires multi stakeholder effort to mobilize funders, developers, etc to deploy a workable solution on a scale that will address the problems - at the root, but at least not cosmetic. It’s been done before in Bangladesh by ONE citizen & provided over 600k houses.
We can’t pretend that building 1, 2 or 5,000 houses sold at 7m naira in any way solves housing problems either in the short or long term. Outcome measurement in strategy is very critical - & this strategy definitely will NOT achieve the intended outcomes. That’s my simple point.
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