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The National Housing Fund has collected worker contributions for 34 years, yet the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria books fewer than 500 mortgages a year against six million contributors and N120-N150 billion in annual inflows.
As Nigeria's housing ministry moves to license estate agents and developers under a new national framework, property professionals argue harmonisation with existing state and federal regulators matters more than adding another layer.
Regulatory and approval charges across the building process in Lagos are getting closer to 30% of the total cost of some projects, practitioners told Nairametrics, warning that delays add to the burden.
A nationwide spot-check finds Kenya's affordable housing programme advancing at sharply different speeds, with 14,219 units allocated so far against a 45,000-unit year-end target, amid affordability concerns, vetting delays and stalled contractor payments.
Homes in the catchment areas of top Western Cape and Gauteng schools generally cost well over R1 million, with Durbanville averaging about R3 million, new analysis of school districts shows.
Ethiopia's housing deficit persists despite heavy public capital because land, building materials and governance bottlenecks, not finance, constrain delivery, The Reporter argues.
The cost of building materials in Nigeria has risen by about 420 per cent in five years, pricing developers and homeowners out of the market and worsening a housing deficit now estimated at over 28 million units.
With only a tiny share of Kenya's salaried workers able to access mortgages, industry players are pushing employer-backed home loans repaid through payroll check-off as a way to lift homeownership and help developers scale up.
Ghana's failure to plan and manage its rapidly growing cities is making property development more expensive and discouraging homebuyers, an analysis argues, with weak enforcement of planning laws leaving developers to provide roads, drainage and other services the state should coordinate.