He wondered that with all the housing estates built by government and the private sector, the figure of 17 million housing gap should no longer be in vogue.
NIGERIANS have always been innundated with 17 million housing gap for years with no improvement.
He maintained that his institution had raised the alarm over the increasing number of unoccupied houses. He reiterated his argument with what the former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had always disputed, calling it a ruse as it is not supported by any scientific study or statistics.
He advised that government to replicate housing estates, such as FESTAC 77 and Gowon, all in Lagos which are home to hundreds of thousands of people.He criticised the national development plan which did not isolate various and segmented needs of states and classes of people to build according to their requirements.
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