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Civil servants, traders, students and young professionals across Abuja are splitting rent and sharing flats, not as a lifestyle choice but as an economic necessity as housing costs outpace stagnant wages.
Oria Developments has launched Kenan, a EGP 2.5bn residential scheme on nine feddans in New Zayed opposite Sphinx International Airport, with construction due to start in the first quarter of 2027.
The City of Cape Town says the clearing of the Gate 7 informal settlement at Maitland Cemetery followed a private owner's eviction order, as displaced families spent the weekend sleeping in the open.
The 2026 Republic Bank Luv FM Habitat Fair will run from November 25 to 29 at Kumasi City Mall, with organisers and lenders pitching staged construction financing to would-be homeowners.
Housing Minister Paul Mavima says demolishing illegal structures is a last resort against unplanned settlements, and warns that land barons who illegally subdivide and sell land will be prosecuted.
A R48.9 million Johannesburg Social Housing Company contract to convert a Booysens building into 40 social housing flats is still a construction site more than three years after it was awarded, with Joshco's own reports showing 45 per cent completion.
Kenya's environment authority has invited public comments on five impact assessments for social and affordable housing developments in Mugumo-ini Ward, Lang'ata, that would deliver a combined 7,128 units and could relocate some Kibra residents.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says Lagos State has delivered 10,623 housing units across 23 estates in its five administrative divisions since 2019, with 4,414 units funded directly from the budget and 6,209 through public-private partnerships.
The City of Cape Town has handed keys to 26 families at the Florida housing site, the latest phase of the Elsies River Infill Housing Project spread across six sites.