{"id":415835,"date":"2011-05-03T04:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/low-cost-housing-vital\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T04:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:32:29","slug":"low-cost-housing-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/low-cost-housing-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Cost Housing Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"28.915153516\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newtimes180.jpg\" alt=\"The New Times (Kigali)\" title=\"Visit The New Times (Kigali)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>editorial<\/p>\n<p>Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), jointly with a German firm, plans to construct low cost housing units with an estimated cost of Rwf 4.4 million per unit.<\/p>\n<p>The houses which will be built using locally available materials consist of two bedrooms, a bathroom and living room.<\/p>\n<p>This is a move to avail decent housing, in a planned manner, to a segment of the population that cannot afford to own high cost housing.<\/p>\n<p>The country has undergone tremendous transformation and many people and families are able to own their own homes. Home ownership remains one of the important aspirations of our people.<\/p>\n<p>A number of initiatives by the government and the private sector have been undertaken to facilitate citizens to realize the dream of home ownership. Mortgage schemes are also playing a key role in this endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>That a new scheme, focusing on low income earners has been put in place, the majority of the population is set to benefit from the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Financial institutions have tended to focus on middle income and high income earners in terms of mortgage financing for home ownership.<\/p>\n<p>It is imperative that they borrow a leaf from the KIST initiative, and develop ways of financing home ownership for the low income earners who constitute the majority of the population.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105030163.html\" title=\"Low Cost Housing Vital\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Low Cost Housing Vital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 May 2011 editorial Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), jointly with a German firm, plans to construct low cost housing units with an estimated cost of Rwf 4.4 million per unit. The houses which will be built using locally available materials consist of two bedrooms, a bathroom and living room. This is a move to avail decent housing, in a planned manner, to a segment of the population that cannot afford to own high cost housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Low Cost Housing Vital - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/low-cost-housing-vital\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Low Cost Housing Vital - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 May 2011 editorial Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), jointly with a German firm, plans to construct low cost housing units with an estimated cost of Rwf 4.4 million per unit. 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