The Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, has charged the Federal Government to engage more private sector participants in its mass housing drive.
To achieve this, NSE wants the federal government to create the enabling environment for private sector initiative.
The body noted that housing delivery in developed countries fared better because they are run by the private sector.
NSE President, Engr. Kunle Mokuolu, who expressed reservations about government’s disposition so far to the housing sector, argued that housing should be off the hands of government.
He stated that housing should be completely privatised, while government should provide the policy and laws that would back housing delivery.
Mokuolu urged government to concern itself with social housing for those who cannot pay rent because they were either out of job or had become financially handicapped
