PROMISE CHECKER - Govt admits missing 1.5 million house target - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
January 29, 2020
By ZimFact
Ahead of the 2018 general election, Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party made a pledge to build 1.5 million homes in the five-year period leading up to 2023.
As part of ZimFact’s Promise Checker series, we checked on progress on this promise.
The government admits it is missing this target, and is revising its plans.
The 1.5 million five-year housing plan would have demanded that the country would build an average of 300,000 houses per year. This target has now been revised downwards.
In The Herald newspaper of Tuesday, January 29, Housing and Social Amenities Minister Daniel Garwe is quoted as saying: “The target that we were given by Government is 100,000 per year, but because of other challenges, if we achieve between 20,000 to 30,000 per year we would have done well.”
Conclusion
The government has already broken its promise to build 1.5 million houses by 2023. Authorities also doubt that they will meet the revised target of building 100,000 houses per year.
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