As part of its new year gift to the citizens, Lagos state government says it is planning to build transit homes as a response to emergency situations and also to reduce homelessness and destitution in the state.
Housing is a major social problem in Lagos, arising from its large and growing population coupled with the expensive nature of the state’s housing market. Many cannot afford what is on offer in the market.
This is why, beyond the transit homes, the state is also planning to turn around some of its dilapidated estates into livable cities to achieve the SDG 11 of sustainable and livable cities.
Apart from working hard to deliver our on-going projects within the next 24 months, we are planning to initiate new schemes in all parts of the state. We are geared towards making more Lagosians home owners.
Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, the state’s commissioner for housing, who revealed this in an interview, said that apart from working hard to deliver on-going projects in the state within the next 24 months, government was also planning to initiate new schemes in all parts of the state.
“We are geared towards making more Lagosians home owners,” the commissioner assured.
CHUKA UROKO
