Local Empowerment: Building Houses, Supporting the Vulnerable Without Selection

The Federal Government says its Renewed Hope Shelter Programme will provide one million low-cost housing units for the vulnerable populations within 7 years.

This was made known by the National Programme Manager, Renewed Hope Shelter for the Poor, IDP and Refugees, Mrs Chidimma Makuachukwu, on Tuesday at the Sixth Nigeria Affordable Housing Finance and Innovation Summit (NAHFIS Expo 2023) in Abuja.

The Renewed Hope Shelter Programme is a special programme under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

FG to collaborate with State, Local Governments

Makuachukwu said that the ministry would be working with the state government in conjunction with the local authorities to get land for the construction of these low-cost housing units for the vulnerable groups.

She added that the project will be moved to all the states in Nigeria by 2024 with the aim to provide affordable houses to the vulnerable people especially the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to make them relocate back to their ancestral home.

She said, “We are working with the state government in conjunction with the local authorities to get land, currently we are in Benue, what we are doing is to resettle the IDPs back to their ancestral homes with the support of state and local authorities.

“We have 10 hectares of land allocated to the Federal Government for this project specifically for Benue and also we are moving to other states by 2024, the agenda is to get the land, bring the government to the front.

“The people will use the local labour and the local content so that the economic of the local authorities will be empowered. This means they are trying to build houses for themselves and that is the agenda of President Bola Tinubu.

“There is no selection process in this, it is about the vulnerable states across the Federation. If you look at Benue and what is happening there and other northern region, including the Southern states, you will be marveled, we are going everywhere by 2024.

“The idea is to move for need assessment, check what is happening so that we come back with need intervention and address the need.