Experts To Brainstorm On Housing Delivery Challenges

Experts in the housing sector are set to deliberate extensively on factors militating against housing delivery in the country such as funding, delivery, infrastructure, mortgages and legislation.

The forum will be the International Housing Exhibition and Conference being organised by Aso Savings and Loans Plc, and will take place in Abuja from Thursday to Saturday.

The conference, according to the organizers, will be attended by stakeholders in the housing industry from the public and private sectors of the economy, including policy makers, representatives of federal and state governments, real estate investors, professional mortgage providers, urban and regional planners, home developers, architects, housing corporations, house buyers and other members of the general public.

With the theme, “Achieving affordable housing delivery by creating 500,000 housing units by 2016’, the organizers explained that the initiative had been conceived to create an effective template for addressing the chronic housing shortage as well as poor access to housing finance in the country.

This is with a view to creating a roadmap for private and public sector partnership for attaining the Vision 2020 objective of the federal government in the area of affordable housing provision for all Nigerians.

With the exhibition progressing simultaneously, panelists including, Evans Kofi Essienyi of the Affordable Housing Institute, Ghana, Dr Delphine Sangodeyi of AHI North and West Africa Associates, Paris,  1st Vice-President, Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos, Stephen Terseer Abar, , Executive Secretary, Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria, Kayode Omotosho and a host of other speakers will present papers on the four salient topics at different sessions.