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August 6, 2012
India: Delhi government starts allotment of 14,000 low-cost flats
Delhi Government recently started allotment of around 14,000 low-cost flats to slum dwellers in keeping with its plan to make the national capital slum-free. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
South Africa: R 18 million rural housing project handed over in Limpopo
According to Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale, the provision of bulk infrastructure remains one of the major challenges in delivering houses in rural areas. He spoke at the handover occasion of 49 houses at Mantheding Village outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Read more here and here.
August 6, 2012
Shelter-Afrique finances Kenya’s low cost housing market with $500,000
Nairobi- based Pan African Housing Finance Institution, Shelter-Afrique, has extended $500,000 loan to a Kenyan housing microfinance institution, Makao Mashinani, in a pilot project geared towards raising the market supply of affordable houses for low income earners. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
India: The US$700 house
Tata Group, the Indian conglomerate that unveiled the Nano, billed as the world’s cheapest car, two years ago, has a new gift for India’s masses – the US$700 home. It can be thought of as a ready to assemble home, just like ready to assemble furniture. Upgrade options include a […]
August 6, 2012
Tanzania: Azania Bank supports housing upgrade
Azania Bank Tanzania Limited has spent about 65.16m/- soft loan to the Tanzanian Financial Services for Underserved Settlements (TAFSUS) in support of its project of upgrading houses in the unplanned and underserved settlements. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
Uganda and its housing backlog
Uganda is facing a national housing backlog of about 1.6million substandard houses and structures that are not appropriate for human habitation. According to the minister for lands, housing and urban development, out of the 1.6million housing units, 211,000 units should be in the urban areas and 1.2million units in the […]
August 6, 2012
Nigeria: Lagos authorities demolish homes in Makoko floating slum
Authorities have decided to demolish the century old slum floating in Makoko, a coastline settlement in Lagos Metropolis. This was demonstrated by a recent government demolition exercise carried out recently. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
The cool new school in rural India
In India, 40 per cent of the populaiton is still illiterate. Instating new technologies that aid education is almost an impossible feat, one that is in many cases infavourably viewed because of the significant costs of infrastructure building involved. In the midst of this scenario, there is a school in […]
August 6, 2012
India: Village kids take Skype route to education
eVidyaLoka is a non-profit organization which helps children in the south of India connect with Indians around the globe, as well as some as near as Chennai or Bangalore to educate them through technological medium like Skype, YouTube, and more to make children of local rural government schools proficient in […]
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