{"id":2132,"date":"2016-10-23T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/high-cost-of-building-materials-driving-housing-deficit-says-niob-boss\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:00:09","slug":"high-cost-of-building-materials-driving-housing-deficit-says-niob-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/high-cost-of-building-materials-driving-housing-deficit-says-niob-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"High cost of building materials driving housing deficit, says NIOB boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"68.314761824609\">\n<div id=\"fsb-social-bar\" class=\"fsb-social-bar\" data-post-id=\"304419\" data-socialite=\"true\">\n<style type=\"text\/css\">< ![CDATA[            #fsb-social-bar  width: 100%; border-bottom: 1px solid #dbdbdb; border-top: 1px solid #dbdbdb; padding: 10px 0; margin: 0px 0 20px 0; float: left; background: #fff; position: relative; 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Successive government has been trying to breach that gap. <\/p>\n<p>This present government has said they are going to provide housing for 100,000 people but I believe they can do it if they really want to. But my worry is that recently there has been increase in the prices of building materials so one wonders how government will be able to build low cost affordable housing for all. Some years back, a two bedroom house can be built at the cost of N1.5million but now it cost over N3milionfor importers, \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt is now worse because the exchange rate for dollars has increase. 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