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By Monitor
Oct 11, 2024

Only 30% of Ugandans can build a good house- report

Ugandans are too broke to build a decent house, with only three in 10 able to acquire land, buy construction materials, and pay for labour to construct one.

Ms Judith Nabakooba, the Minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, said the low income earned by Ugandans both in urban and rural areas does not enable them to construct a decent starting house that costs about Shs183m.

Ms Nabakooba, who was officiating at the World Habitat Day at Naguru, a Kampala City suburb, on Monday, said: “A median-income of Ugandans is Shs220,000 per month for the urban folk and Shs168,000 per month for the rural person. Majority, [about] 76 percent, of Ugandans can only afford a housing unit costing in the range of Shs12m to Shs24m, meaning that Shs183m is on a higher end.”