{"id":6814,"date":"2022-10-05T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2022-10-05T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:23:01","slug":"lands-ministry-partners-with-habitat-for-humanity-uganda-to-host-ugandas-first-housing-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lands-ministry-partners-with-habitat-for-humanity-uganda-to-host-ugandas-first-housing-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lands Ministry partners with Habitat for Humanity Uganda to host Uganda\u2019s first Housing Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Sierra Ruth Arinaitwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) is partnering with Habitat for Humanity Uganda (HFHU) to hold the first ever Uganda Housing Symposium in commemoration of this year\u2019s World Habitat Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National celebrations will be held on Friday, 7<sup>th<\/sup> October 2022 during the Uganda Housing Symposium at Speke Resort Munyonyo under the theme, \u201caffordable and inclusive housing solutions for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium will bring together national and international heads of key organizations, high ranking government officials, kingdom representatives, property developers, real estate investors, regulators academia, manufactures, financiers, contractors and outstanding members of society to discuss practical solutions top affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" data-attachment-id=\"6818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lands-ministry-partners-with-habitat-for-humanity-uganda-to-host-ugandas-first-housing-symposium\/dsc_0035-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1702\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1359221455&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_0035-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DSC_0035-1-scaled.jpg 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Robert Otim National Director Habitat for Humanity Uganda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon. Judith Nabakooba, the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development while addressing the media in Kampala said that Uganda is currently faced with a housing deficit of approximately 2.4million units which has to be addressed from a multi-sectoral approach by mobilizing both formal and non-formal housing finance for affordable housing by all sector players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, Habitat for Humanity has been committed to mobilizing &nbsp;partners, volunteers and community members across Uganda and beyond to find the solutions and help create the policies that will improve home affordability for millions of individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.Robert Otim, the National Director of Habitat for Humanity Uganda said that the goal of the Uganda Housing Symposium is to provide a sector-wide platform for showcasing innovations that support access to descent, affordable and inclusive housing while also addressing affordability, habitability, tenure security though a collaborative arrangement with all the stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the Uganda Housing Symposium, will show case housing innovations and best practices across Africa and improve sector wide learning, our objective is to enable more Ugandans access low cost housing and live decently,\u201d Otim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further added that Habitat for Humanity will soon launch the rural model house that was built with interlocking soil stabilized blocks and also launch the urban prototype. \u201cThese 2 houses cost UGX 18,000,000 and UGX 32,000,000 respectively, these are some of the approaches that we as an organization are using to increase and enable more Ugandans to access low-cost housing,\u201d said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1982, Habitat for Humanity has built and improved over 200,000 houses; transforming the lives of over 1.5 Million people and supporting over 2,000 youth acquire vocational training. They have also provided technical assistance and affordable housing solutions to over 10 financial institutions who have in term supported millions of Ugandans to own decent homes incrementally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sierra Ruth Arinaitwe The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) is partnering with Habitat for Humanity Uganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-housing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/unnamed-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6900,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/uganda-crowns-world-habitat-day-celebrations-with-the-first-ever-national-housing-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":6814,"position":0},"title":"Uganda crowns World Habitat Day celebrations with the first ever National Housing Symposium","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Gloria Kembabazi Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the World Habitat Day on 7th October 2022 with the first ever annual Uganda Housing Symposium themed \u201caffordable and inclusive housing solutions for all.\u201d The symposium was dominated by discussions around the key challenges facing the housing sector\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;National Development&quot;","block_context":{"text":"National Development","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-development\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221012-WA0247.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221012-WA0247.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221012-WA0247.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221012-WA0247.jpg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9646,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ministry-of-lands-habitat-for-humanity-launch-second-edition-of-the-national-housing-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":6814,"position":1},"title":"Ministry of Lands, Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Edition of the National Housing Symposium","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Sierra Arinaitwe The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) together with Habitat for Humanity Uganda (HFHU) have launched the second edition of the National Housing Symposium slated to take place on Thursday 5th, October 2023 at Mestil Hotel in Kampala. 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