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Angola: one million homes for the underprivileged
Monday, 27 July 2009
Angola plans to build one million homes over the next five years, focussing on housing the more impoverished of its citizens. This comes after the southern African country has overtaken Nigeria as the continent's biggest oil producer.
The project will be funded by the Government of Angola, with support from US.
US ambassador to Angola Dan Mozena was quoted as saying that the US will loan the southern African country $400 million for the construction of the one million homes for the poor.
Angola is becoming increasingly more attractive to foreign oil companies, due in large part to its political stability.
The country has decided to slowly increase its output and that it has potential for greater production over the next few years.
The Angolan government has set aside $50 billion for the one million new homes, which will be built over the next four years.
It is hoped that the building the homes will bring down real-estate prices in Luanda - one of the world's most expensive cities - and lift millions of people living in crowded settlements around Luanda out of poverty.
Africa News & ATGN
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