Landless People’s Movement chief whip Dawid Eigub on Tuesday demanded a report on houses built during the 2025/26 financial year.
This follows the government’s promise to build 10 000 low-cost houses annually and 50 000 houses in five years, with the mass formalisation of informal settlements to commence in earnest.
Eigub posed this to minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa in the National Assembly.
“With just over 1.5 months remaining before the end of the 2025/26 fiscal year, could the minister provide a detailed report of the total serviced land and the total number of low-cost housing units that have been delivered in each respective town, settlement, village or city?” he asked.
Eigub further asked what measures are in place to address bureaucratic bottlenecks in urban land delivery within local authorities.
His probing comes after president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah last April during her maiden speech in the parliament directed the ministry to establish a special land delivery task force.
Eigub said the housing and land crisis remains a challenge, with approximately 80% of the urban population squatting in informal settlements.
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