Over the past two days, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development hosted the 2022 National Housing Forum at the Kenneth Kaunda International Conference Centre under the theme “Housing Investment Strategies Towards Mass Development of Decent and Affordable Houses.”
Habitat for Humanity National Director, Mathabo Makuta, was a panelist on the topic “Towards Affordable Housing and Adequate Basic Services – What should be done? An SDG 11 Agenda” alongside Peoples Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia, Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat Zambia and United Nations Human Settlements Programme in Zambia. The panelists made a clarion call to have increased national budgetary allocations towards the housing sector that should deliberately target low income families who are in the vast majority in Zambia.
Furthermore, Ms. Makuta emphasised the need to enhance People Public Private Partnerships (P4s) that are mutually reinforcing to address the mammoth housing deficit in the country that hovers around 1.6 million housing units.
