The minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa has highlighted the urgent need for increased budgetary allocation to deliver the Presidential mandate of providing affordable housing and reducing the housing deficit.
The minister gave the highlight during the 2025 budget defence before the Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, and the House of Representatives Committee on Housing and Habitat respectively, yesterday, in Abuja.
Dangiwa, who alongside the minister of state, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata led the management staff of the Ministry to the budget defence, also presented the 2023/2024 budget performance of the ministry.
In his presentation, he highlighted the ministry’s priorities for 2025, emphasising the need to complete ongoing housing projects, slum upgrading, and urban renewal programs across the nation.
He also listed the focus areas of his ministry in the 2025 budget to include; construction of 20,000 housing units under the Renewed Hope Housing Agenda, and completion of National Housing projects in over 20 states and the FCT.
Accordingly, the minister urged the committee to increase Budgetary allocations in seven key areas which includes: ” the completion of ongoing housing projects, allocation for slum upgrading and urban renewal programs, National Housing projects as well as improved funding for affordable housing initiatives, enhanced allocation for housing infrastructure development, including Increased support for housing research and development and lastly to improve funding for housing policy and regulatory framework development”, he listed.
The Senate Committee is under the chairmanship of Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, while the House of Representatives Committee is headed by Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin.
Both committees expressed their support for the vision and commitment of the ministry to turn around the housing sector of the country and assured the Ministry of their collaboration to assist it to meeting it’s demands and obligations
