{"id":3228,"date":"2016-11-18T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2016-11-25T19:01:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T18:01:33","slug":"how-government-housing-policies-affect-low-income-earners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/how-government-housing-policies-affect-low-income-earners\/","title":{"rendered":"How Government Housing Policies Affect Low Income-Earners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building a house in Lagos is quite challenging. At a point, I used to imagine that building houses are exclusively for the rich<\/a>. I have \u00a0seen rich people build big houses within six months and poor people building bungalows for six years.<\/p>\n

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This situation is contrasting because the poor have to spend a long time before achieving their dreams. Building a house is held in high esteem in our society. Despite government policies in promoting<\/a> affordable housing for the poor in Nigeria, this seems abstract as a lot of poor people still struggle to pay rent let alone build or buy an apartment.<\/p>\n

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This situation seems irrevocable as a lot of Nigerians keep struggling in the same web. This same situation is applicable to Suara a civil servant who lives in Lagos. One of Suara\u2019s biggest dream is building a house. He wanted to build his chest that he achieved more than his father by building a better house in Lagos. To him, building a house is the best thing that can ever happen to anyone.<\/p>\n

After thirteen years of working \u00a0as a civil servant, he struggled to buy a piece of land which he paid for with his two years savings from the cooperative society at work. Those were years when he had to endure hunger to buy a piece of land.<\/p>\n

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The same year, he had issues with the person he bought the land from. The issue continued for a long time. He was on the verge of losing the land<\/a> when he had to pay extra 400,000 to the landowner, who cheated him. He had to save for another one year to pay up the money.<\/p>\n

Suara has been trying to build a bungalow for five years but he hasn’t completed it. The best he could save was 500,000 NGN in a year. And he consistently had challenges with Omo Oniles who kept collecting money from time to time.<\/p>\n

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He had to pay for foundation and roofing, so far, he has paid over 700,000 to Omo Oniles before the recent land grabbing laws in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Today, Suara has not completed bis bungalow despite the fact that he is a civil servant. If Suara can face such challenges as a civil servant, how much more those at the bottom of the ladder who have no means of saving up the tangible amount. It is high time the government of Nigeria<\/a> started Implementing her housing policies to favor the poor.<\/p>\n

Visit www.tolet.com.ng<\/a> to rent or buy a property in Nigeria today.<\/p>\n

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