Housing is one of the major ways Buhari can remake Nigeria

In an article written by a man with 20years’ of experience in the new home industry, Chuks UC Ukaoma, who reside with his family in Texas USA, Housing has been pointed out as one of the ways Buhari can remake Nigeria.

Read excerpts from the piece titled ‘Nine ways Buhari can remake Nigeria by partnering with private sector’ below:

Housing (Specifically single family homes). “Nigeria is bedeviled with a housing deficit of about 17 million” houses. The private housing industry could create over 50 million good jobs, over time. This alone would solve Nigeria’s unemployment problem. The country can be transformed by establishing new well-planned mega cities near the six super highways

Nigeria should cease wasting money by patching ill-planned cities. Why continue to pour new wine into old wineskins? States should compete by building new cities with ample parks, schools, sports teams, places of worship and commerce, and yes, cemeteries.

The streets must be walkable, bikeable and motorable. The cities should have modern amenities like water, waste water, electric power, and technology network. These amenities are great job-creating opportunities.

As homeownership increases in a growing economy, the problems plaguing Nigeria today would shrink to manageable levels. When your homestead represents your largest single investment and the same is the case for your neighbors (and there is the rule of law), armed robbery and Boko Haram would not gain a foothold in that environment.

The solution is not more (Beverly Hills) Lekkis or Maitamas where homes are out of reach of the average person and where everyone is a billionaire. Rather communities need to be planned like our villages where big and small homes co-exist; and where people can put down roots and know their neighbors. Why live behind high insecurity walls of today’s transient cities? People toil most of their lives without owning a piece of the city due to the high cost of real estate

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