No industry-accepted data to fix Nigeria’s housing problem — Dangiwa

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Nigeria Housing Problem

Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, has said that there is no industry-accepted data to guide the federal government and financial

institutions, both local and international, in planning and outlining strategies to fix Nigeria’s housing problem. Dangiwa spoke while inaugurating a Joint Steering Committee on the National Housing Data Centre in Abuja, saying… institutions, both local and international, in planning and outlining strategies to fix Nigeria’s housing problem.

“All of us gathered here today are stakeholders in Nigeria’s housing industry. We all know where we stand as a country in terms of meeting the housing needs of Nigerians. We are far from where we should be in unleashing the sector’s potential as an enabler of economic growth,” he said.The Housing Minister further explained that, “What we have had over the decades are speculations and estimates.

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