NAMIBIA UNOCCUPIED MASS HOUSING SCHEME SET TO BE ALLOCATED

Namibia government set to allocate unoccupied mass housing scheme after two year of completion.

The mass housing scheme which has been constructed by the government has been vacant for over two years is now set to be handed over before the end of this financial year according to the Chief Executive Officer of National Housing Enterprise (NHE) Gisbertus Mukulu.

According to Gisbertus Mukulu, the houses which are under the Katima Mulilo scheme have been allocated to new owners, however the experienced delay was due to various issues that needed to be ironed out and that that out of 202 houses constructed under the scheme, 89 of the social houses were already handed over, with only seven despite having owners are yet to be handed over because they have sewer problems, which will soon be resolved.

The aim of the housing project  is to build 185,000 houses by 2030 with the Government through the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development as the custodian of the Mass Housing Development Programme while the NHE has been tasked to allocate and sell all houses constructed.

The challenges face during the allocation was that most of the credit-linked houses are yet to be handed over due to the slow processes by banks to approve the housing loans.