Nigeria's housing shortage worsening
The real estate market is hobbled by a dearth of home loans, high interest rates, poverty and the African continent's second most expensive property prices
[LAGOS] ESTHER Macully used all of her 1.5-metre frame to face down a bulldozer and save her freezer from being destroyed as a wrecking crew guarded by armed security forces razed her home in Nigeria's Badia East slum.
While she salvaged the cooler, the 40-year-old is still waiting for the Lagos state government to fulfil a pledge to help replace the home she used as a store to sell beverages and food. The wooden shack was flattened last February along with the dwellings of thousands of others that authorities said were moved for a housing project that's yet to get off the ground.
"We can't be living in this kind of condition forever," Ms Macully said as…
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