#Gabon: Opening a sale of 2,000 social housing

 Libreville, Gabon (Gabonactu.com) The Director General of the National Social Housing Company (NAS), Paul Mapessi said Thursday in Libreville on marketing launch 2000 dwellings whose target customers are Gabonese workers on low incomes who unable to obtain decent housing in a country where the deficit is about 200,000 units.

Housing for sale are being built to BIKELE, on the southern outskirts of Libreville. They are funded by two local banks, the banks Gabonese Union (BMU) and the International Bank for Commerce and of Gabon (BICIG) industry. The cost varies between 23 million and 42 million CFA francs, according to the standard.
The potential buyer will have to pay for housing and credit for 15 years of monthly payment 130 000 FCFA per month for 15 years for a house of 23 million or 230 000 FCFA per month for the house of 42 million.

After this first phase, the NAS will launch the marketing phase of homes to people without stable income. These will be allocated houses whose cost will depend on the amount of rent they pay the rent before the acquisition. Basically, these people will become the tenant of their own home until the redemption of the value thereof. These homes will be built with a grant from the state that will take care of essential spending.

The poor, with no monthly income will be taken into account, he has said in 2015 at the launch of the second program which will involve 3,000 homes on the same site.
Founded in 2013, the national society of social housing main tasks of improving the supply of housing for low-income Gabon and help to tackle the housing crisis in the country. According to official static from 2005, Gabon has a deficit of 200,000 units.
The first real overall program cost nearly one hundred billion CFA francs.
The project also includes 650 serviced lots with an average size of 500 square meters each, with land titles. Land including water and electricity are already available to them cost a 8,500 million FCFA. It is payable in four installments.
In this momentum to help compensate for the lack of housing, the NAS has also initiated other projects of this type. A Avormbam, north of Libreville, 750 apartments of two and three bedroom apartments are currently being built. In Port-Gentil, the economic capital by 500 against housing also sprung up. Since 2000 housing bet on sale, these are constructed with durable materials.