The Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) and partners are working hard to launch the construction of Ndera – Gasabo housing units where low and middle-income earners have started applying for a house.
The bank, in partnership with Bank of Africa are preparing all requirements to kick start construction of 1750 housing units in Ndera sector, Gasabo district by September this year.
Paul Kamanzi, 41, has lived in Kigali since early 1995. Having been born in Uganda where his parents fled to escape political persecution during pre-liberation Rwanda, he was among the early returnees who took advantage of the country’s liberation in July 1994 from the genocidal regime to return to their home country to rebuild their lives.
On April 26, 2018, the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR)-Rwanda in collaboration with the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) based in Nairobi, Kenya, organised the second Utafiti Sera (Research-Policy) Stakeholders’ Forum on Urban Governance and City Transformation in Rwanda, bringing together over 50 participants to discuss affordable housing in Kigali at the Marasa Umubano Hotel.
The social mix or integration of affordable houses and services is a critical principle for new urban planning in order to ensure sustainability, an official has said.
Vincent Kitio, chief of the urban energy unit at the UN agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, was yesterday presenting strategies to integrate sustainable city planning into a roadmap of a sustainable energy future for East Africa on the final day of the first Sustainable Energy Forum for East Africa 2018, in Kigali.
Rwanda-based Real estate developers, DND Developers Ltd, has revealed that plans to bring affordable housing solutions to the Rwanda Market are in progress
Speaking with IGIHE, DND Developers Managing Director, Eng. Daniel Mehari, said that the company was trying to respond to the needs of the time, as currently, small and less expensive houses were very sought-after.
"We are currently going through plans for the third phase of our project which is a set of cheaper, and more affordable units than the ones that we are currently selling to the public,” says Eng. Mehari.
10,000 affordable houses are set to be constructed in Rwanda; this is after the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mitrelli Group, an Israeli conglomerate that specializes in large-scale long-term projects.
Haim Taib, Founder and President of Mitrelli Group who signed the MOU confirmed the reports and lauded RDB for the government’s readiness to cooperate and partner with them.
Kigali should be an engine of growth and poverty reduction for Rwanda. But just 1,000 formal houses are built there each year, and most are too expensive for the majority low-income citizens. How can the government breathe life into the city’s low income housing market? Robert Buckley and Sally Murray discuss._
