{"id":55257,"date":"2023-10-04T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku"},"modified":"2023-10-04T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:27:12","slug":"219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku","title":{"rendered":"219 receive houses in Oshikuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni has said the government is working around the clock to address the housing backlog in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the handover of 219 houses in Oshikuku on Monday, Uutoni acknowledged that the journey to homeownership may at times take longer than anticipated, but gave his assurance that the government is working diligently to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The 219 houses were developed through various housing programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen of the houses were constructed under the Build Together programme, while 63 were built by the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) in collaboration with their community savings schemes. The remaining houses were the result of a public-private partnership between the Oshikuku Town Council and Easy United Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Uutoni said the town council recently availed over 30 semi-serviced erven to SDFN and 10 fully serviced erven to Build Together beneficiaries, allocating a budget provision of N$800 000 for the 2023\/24 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment remains committed to addressing the housing shortage regardless of socioeconomic status,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the minister stressed that at all levels of government, there is a steadfast commitment to fostering an enabling environment and creating opportunities for all, particularly those residing in informal settlements who currently lack adequate housing.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the private sector to continue collaborating with government and its agencies, meeting halfway in the collective effort to provide housing solutions. Johanna Amutenya, a member of SDFN, spoke of the federation\u2019s role as a people\u2019s movement for saving in Namibia, with 937 groups and a total of 31 650 members across the country. In the Omusati region, Amutenya reported the existence of 56 groups comprising 1 504 members who have collectively saved N$ 3.1 million. Notably, a total of 339 houses were constructed in the region at a cost of N$8.5 million, with N$6.9 million already repaid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Oshikuku network has 217 members organised into three saving groups, of which 61 are homeowners,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Amutenya said their combined savings amounted to N$513 067.85.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni has said the government is working around the clock to address the housing backlog in Namibia. Speaking during the handover of 219 houses in Oshikuku on Monday, Uutoni acknowledged that the journey to homeownership may at times take longer than anticipated, but gave his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,249],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-55257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>219 receive houses in Oshikuku - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni has said the government is working around the clock to address t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"219 receive houses in Oshikuku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni has said the government is working around the clock to address t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-04T16:52:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-04T17:27:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/10\/sm_1696427691.719234.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"495\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"219 receive houses in Oshikuku\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-04T16:52:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-04T17:27:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\"},\"wordCount\":332,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/10\/sm_1696427691.719234.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/219-receive-houses-in-oshikuku\",\"name\":\"219 receive houses in Oshikuku - 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