Govt’s 450 000 housing units target in limbo:Watchdog

GOVERNMENT’S ambitions to build over 450 000 housing units by 2025 now hang in the balance as the 2023 national budget allocation for the programme is insufficient, a policy research watchdog has observed.

In a budget analysis, research watchdog Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) said the proposed allocation of $27,7 billion (US$34,6 million) on housing was paltry.

“The proposed allocation is not sufficient to fulfil governments ambitions of 450 000 housing units and the policy priorities stipulated in the Zimbabwe National Human Settlement Policy such as effective human settlement delivery, settlement financing, regularisation of informal settlement, urban regeneration and renewal, rural settlement and social amenities,” the Zimcodd report read.

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