Housing and Urban Development

There is a huge deficit in the availability of housing to Nigerians, especially in the middle and low-income groups. Where it is available, the quality is extremely low, compared to what is obtainable in other developing countries. Modern financial arrangements, especially mortgage, to support the expansion of quality and affordable housing are at a very rudimentary stage. In addition the standards of planning and sanitation, especially in our cities, are quite low with unplanned structures and squalor taking over our cities and turning them, potentially, into slums.
To address these twin problems, the private and public sectors have important roles to play – the former, in the modernization and expansion of the housing sector in general, the latter, in strengthening regulations and institutions, to improve the existing urban development standards and ensure strict compliance with them.

Objectives

The party’s objectives in housing and urban development are:

1. To rapidly increase the quantity and improve the quality of the housing stock. especially for middle and low income groups.
2. To provide a central and active role for the private sector, especially mortgage institutions, in the provision of housing for all.
3. To rapidly improve the quality of the environment
4. To substantially upgrade and improve the mechanism for the disposal of human and industrial wastes,
5. To protect people, plants, animals, water and the atmosphere from pollution and abuse of any kind.
6. To institutionalize an appropriate response towards the environmental and waste disposal policies of the advanced countries.

Filed Under: ACN Manifesto