Modern, Affordable Housing Drive on Target

President Mnangagwa and Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga listen to an FBC official during the commissioning of the bank’s Fontaine Ridge Housing Project in Kuwadzana, Harare, yesterday. — Picture: Believe Nyakudjara

Fungi Kwaramba Political Editor

ZIMBABWE is inching closer to meeting its 220 000 housing units by 2025 target with synergies between Government and the private sector affording the nation modern, decent and affordable housing in line with Vision 2030, to become an upper-middle-class economy. Yesterday, President Mnangagwa launched the Fontaine Ridge Housing Project in Harare West, a project that is being funded by FBC Bank and its building society, which is also demonstrative of the centrality of the private sector in the country’s modernisation as enunciated in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1). Already, out of a target of 220 000 houses, 180 000 have been built with projects both from the public and private sector taking shape in every part of the country, in development that leaves no one and no place behind. ReadMore