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In his welcome address, the Convener of AIHS, Barr Festus Adebayo, underscored the importance of this year’s theme as the housing sector post-pandemic should be viewed as a necessary and critical social infrastructure for fighting the menace of the pandemic.
Adebayo noted that to prevent the mass fatalities witnessed in some countries due to the COVID-19 infections, it was pertinent to invest in innovations that would enable housing to be a tool in combating the virus.
While commending the CBN, Ministry of Finance and other stakeholders for the establishment of the N200 billion National Social Housing Programme managed by the Family Homes Funds to deliver 300,000 housing units for low-income earners, he stressed on the need to build affordable housing by government and the private sector to effectively tackle the growing house deficit.