Ugandas GDP 25.89 billion USD (2017) Population: 40 million - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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• Uganda’s GDP 25.89 billion USD (2017)
• Population: 40 million estimate as at 2018
• Housing back log of 2.4 million units in

Uganda

• Kampala’s population slated at 3 million

during the day and 1.65 million during the night

• Housing deficit in Kampala city is 880,000

units

• Over 70% of the urban dwellers in Uganda

are living in rental housing

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75% 75% 25% 25% 50% 50% 87% 87%

• The National Shelter & Housing Strategy (1992)
• The National Housing Policy (2016)
• The Constitution (1995)
• The National Urban Policy (2017)
• The Physical Planning Act (2010)
• The Building Control Act (2013)
• The Land Act (Cap 248)
• The Slum Upgrading Strategy (2008)
• The Land Acquisition Act (Cap 226)
• The Mortgage Act (2009)
• The Condominium Property Act (2012)
• The national building codes and standards

(2018)

• The Landlord and tenant bill/act (2018)

2016

Launch of NHP after close to 30 years without a relevant sector policy framework

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• Issue of implementation remains a challenge – resource allocation (manpower, finance,

institutional structures etc.)

• Commodification of land coupled with speculation characterises land markets, arising from

vested interests amongst different key actors in land and housing sector

• Inadequate regulatory and institutional frameworks for real estate development and

management

• Land values continue to appreciate and spiral out of control
• Low income HHs are vulnerable as they are pushed into marginal lands
• Urban sprawl development complicating urban governance and service delivery
• The few low and middle income HHs with capacity to access housing finance fear losing

their assets

• Housing on the real estate markets by NHCC and other private real estate developers

remains expensive

• Lack of coordination between public sector offices as well as the private sector
• Few products available for incremental housing and financing with very little government

support

OPPORTUNITIES

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• Using the housing economic value chain to influence policy change

and government thinking:

• Landlord and tenant bill
• Real estate policy
• Lobby

for sector coordination and alignment

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National Development Plans

• Increase focus on rental housing as it is a major economy driver in

Uganda

• Security of tenure reforms: interacting with formal and informal

institutions of land

• Building a case for incremental housing finance targeting both the

formal and informal sector

• Facilitate process of data collection involving the informal sector
• Formalization of construction processes beyond the formal sector