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The Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos has asked the Court of Appeal in Lagos to overturn a 2018 High Court judgment that declared the Lagos State Government the owner of a disputed property at No. 17/19 Okoya Street, Idumagbo, on Lagos Island.
Kenya's Affordable Housing Programme is backing a KSh18 billion investment in Nandi County expected to deliver 3,500 housing units, hostels for 6,000 students and 15 modern markets.
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson says the government will ask the Western Cape High Court next week to contain the occupation of about 2,000 hectares of state land at Knoflokskraal, where plots are allegedly being sold illegally and holiday homes built.
Ghana's National Housing Fund says construction of social housing projects is expected to start in 2027, with designs, stakeholder consultations and site selection now under way.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has urged the national government to fast-track the Sh80 billion Nairobi cooperation agreement, revealing that only three of 40,000 planned streetlights have been installed and that water and waste projects have stalled.
South Africa is releasing about 2.5 million hectares of state-owned land to black farmers with title deeds under the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his weekly newsletter.
Federal and state governments have backed single-digit mortgage interest rates and a 35-year repayment window at the 15th National Council on Land, Housing and Urban Development in Sokoto, as Nigeria's housing deficit is put at more than 14.5 million units.
Environmentalists say private developers have built within 20 metres of the high water mark at Mombasa's Tudor Creek, well inside Kenya's 60-metre riparian buffer, destroying mangroves and polluting the marine ecosystem.
The Kano State House of Assembly has begun moves to regulate rent increases after lawmakers said annual house rents had doubled and shop rents had risen from N1 million to N2 million within a year.