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Access To Land, Hindrance To Housing Delivery – FHA Boss
Problems associated with land acquisition are making it difficult for the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) to achieve its mandate of providing Nigerians with adequate housing. Mr Terver Gemade, Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), disclosed this at a recent event in Abuja .
He said that the authority’s problem was land, stressing that just like private developers, it also sourced its land from government. “We are an agency of government, but here in Abuja we seek for land from FCTA or FCDA or Abuja Geographical Iinformation Systems (AGIS) as the case may be; that’s where we get a land to build on.
“Gwarinpa was given to us by FCDA; Lugbe was given to us by FCDA. Now we have exhausted these lands, we are asking them for more lands and we are yet to get it,’’ Gemade said.
The managing director said that if new land was allocated to the authority now, its focus would be on a scheme that considered low income earners. According to him, the agency has evolved strategies and models to provide houses for low income earners. He added: “We have the co-operative model, rental model and the sight services models. All these are targeted at lower income earners.
“Not everybody has the same housing needs; we know that, and that is why we have created different delivery methods in different demands.’’
Gemade further said that the FHA was considering the housing issue from a broad perspective to ensure that Nigerians got good homes. He said it was not true that the authority shortchanged low income earners in the sale of its houses.
The managing director explained that what happened was that most low income earners preferred to re-sell their houses after purchasing them to make some extra money.
“You sell your house to lower income earners, they in turn sell their houses to higher income earners. You see the irony of life.
“This is what we call gentrification. It has ever happened with resettlement in this city of Abuja ,’’ Gemade said.
He said that when the indigenes of Abuja were resettled, the FHA built houses for them.
The managing director said the indigenes re-sold the houses to visitors and higher income earners, took the money in excess of the cost and moved to the bush.
On the affordability of FHA houses, Gemade said its property remained the cheapest compared to what private developers charged. Gemade said the high demand for the authority’s houses was responsible for the over crowding in its estates.
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