The new Chairman of the Federal Housing Authority, Brig. Gen. Peter Reis, on Friday said that the authority had concluded arrangements to build two million low cost houses in parts of the country within five years.
Reis stated this at the inauguration of the national secretariat of the Defence and Police Officers‘Wives Association.

He said that they would deliver 10, 000 housing units within the first year under a special housing scheme initiated by the authority.
The FHA boss, who explained that they would use five main delivery mechanisms to build the houses, said that the authority would employ the services of existing housing cooperatives.
He said that they had already initiated a new scheme called” Cooperative Home Ownership Incentive Scheme.”

Reis said that the second platform for delivering the houses would be through housing associations,” who are expected to provide rental houses for the less privilege.”
He said that the authority would also develop new towns that would enable people to live close to where they work.
”So with all these, we believe that in the first year, we will be able to deliver 10,000 housing units and hopefully, within the first five years of this operation, we will deliver two million housing units,” he said.
The National President of DEPOWA, Mrs. Ruth Martin Agwai, said that the building of the ultra-modern secretariat became necessary because the association had operated for over five years without a functional office.

She said that the former president of the association, Malama Fatima Ogohi, secured plots of land for the association and its sister associations to build their secretariat.
She said that the inauguration of the secretariat would not have been possible but for the assistant of former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Martin Agwai and other principal officers of the Defence Headquarters who worked tirelessly to ensure the completion of the build.

Source: punch

.