Namibian Government to Construct 9,000 Houses

Written by Makula Dunbar

Sep 10, 2013

The Government plans to construct about 9,000 houses through the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) at a cost of N$2,7 billion in the next 15 months under its new programme aimed at reducing the housing backlog of over 100,000.

This was said by the Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing, Charles Namoloh yesterday, during a meeting with regional and local council officials including most of the governors where he briefed them about the national housing plan.

He said the mass housing plan will inject N$45 billion into the construction of 185 000 houses over the next 17 years.

Government plans to inject N$2,7 billion until 2014 and N$2,5 billion for each year thereafter until 2030.

NHE which has built 13 295 houses over the past 22 years will be the administrator of the mass housing programme.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba, who is heading a Cabinet committee on mass housing development, has made the scheme one of the major projects he wants to see progressing before his tenure ends and he will launch it next month.

Namoloh said the mass housing development programme will be executed in two phases.

The first phase is to be implemented during the “first two years 2013/14 and 2014/15, which constitutes pilot projects targeting capital centres in the 14 regions”.

“Thereafter, the programme will be rolled out to other localities, during the second phase which will run up to 2030,” he said.

Preliminary information provided by NHE Chief Executive Officer Vincent Hailulu yesterday showed how much each town will get for the first phase which will kick off next month.