Governor Dr. Dikko Umar Radda of Katsina State, Northern Nigeria has allocated 25 hectares of land to the Federal Government to construct the Renewed Hope City Project within the state.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Katsina State Commissioner of Lands and Physical Planning, Dr. Faisal Kaita, disclosed this during a meeting with the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa at the Ministry’s Headquarters in Abuja.
In October 2023, the Housing Minister revealed the federal government’s plan to construct 40,000 housing units nationwide under the Renewed Hope Cities project.
The Renewed Hope Cities project is part of efforts of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration to bridge the housing gap in the country by constructing 1,000 housing units in each of the 36 States and 4,000 housing units in Abuja.
Federal Government announced it would provide 5.5 million housing units nationwide in ten years to bridge the housing gap.
Dangiwa said the first phase of the Renewed Hope Cities project is the construction of 40,000 affordable housing units nationwide.
After the announcement of the commencement of the first phase of the Renewed Hope Cities project, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development promptly sent out Land Allocation Requests to all states, requesting a minimum of 50 hectares of land near the state capital.
The Federal Government further stated that it plans to carry out slum upgrading and urban renewal projects in select states to improve the welfare of Nigerian citizens.
More states are expected to respond to the Ministry’s request for land allocation for the Renewed Hope Cities project in the coming weeks and months.
