Housing! For Future on Thursday handed over 25 completed houses to beneficiaries who previously lived in shacks in Windhoek.
Housing! for Future is an initiative of the real estate industry that rents affordable housing to low-income tenants.
Speaking to Nampa at Windhoek’s Otjomuise Extension 10 residential area, Housing! For Future Managing Director, Stefan Burger, said the company has been opened in Namibia but the home turf is in Germany.
“We built 25 houses and we are able to rent a two-bedroom house for N.dollars 3 600 and a three-bedroom for N.dollars 4 800,” Burger said.
He added that the reason for the affordable rental housing is because they want to take people out of shacks and place them in better living conditions.
Konstanze Dürotin, Managing Director of Housing! For Future told Nampa the housing is for large families, families with people living with disabilities and single parents living in informal settlements.
“First we get in contact with the tenants and collect their information such as identification documents and income statements. We then have interviews and the criteria is tenants who are currently living in shacks, in bad conditions whose lives we can improve,” Dürotin explained.
Speaking to Nampa at the same event, Tobias Mwetuinda said his living condition will improve now that he is renting an afforable two-bedroom house .
“Previously, I lived in a small shack. Sometimes I could not purchase furniture because the space was not enough. I could not buy electrical appliances because there was no electricity. Here, the sanitation is better, previously I would use a bucket. There is also electricity and a stove,” Mwetuinda said.
The construction of the houses varies from conventional building material to bricks which consist of 87 per-cent Namibian sand, solidified with synthetic resin partly made from recycled plastic bottles.
Source: NAMPA