Lagos rent crisis: Adequate housing goes beyond building houses – Sanwo-Olu

The Lagos State Government has said that addressing the lodging shortage requires much than constructing further homes, stressing that affordability, accessibility and entree to indispensable services are arsenic important.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated this successful a keynote code delivered by the Commissioner for Housing, Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, astatine the 2026 World Habitat Day solemnisation successful Lagos connected Monday.

This year’s World Habitat Day was observed nether the theme, “Adequate Housing for All.”

Sanwo-Olu said the specified beingness of a gathering does not needfully mean it provides capable accommodation for the household surviving successful it, noting that due lodging indispensable warrant security, affordability, accessibility and basal services.

He said the authorities authorities had provided 10,623 lodging units done nonstop budgetary allocations and public-private partnerships since 2019, with 23 lodging estates completed crossed Lagos’ 5 divisions.

The governor, however, acknowledged that the accomplishment was lone portion of the broader effect required to code the state’s lodging needs.

According to him, th...