EDITORIAL: Double efforts to provide decent houses to low income earners
The Rugarama estate in the outskirts of Nyamirambo, where the subsidiary of Remote Group was contracted to put up over 2,000 low cost housing units. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA
Official data shows that lower income earners who make up more than 59 percent of the city population earn less than Rwf100,000 a month and can only afford to spend Rwf40,000 on housing per month.
The data also shows annual demand for housing in Kigali is at more than 30,000 units, but supply is at only 1,000 units largely dominated by high-income residents.
