By Mutabazi Sam Stewart Building a house is not a walk in the woods. It calls for meticulous planning because of mainly two reasons; to keep the costs reasonable and secondly get a quality house that will give you satisfaction. To get a good house, you need money but you also need to know what …
By Sam Stewart Mutabazi The Housing Mortgage Market in Uganda is less than 2% of the country’s GDP. This is very low even by Africa’s standards. Housing Finance Bank and Stanbic Bank are the only financial institutions providing long term mortgages in the real sense. Even then, their terms are very restrictive and their interest …
Mortgage Market in Uganda is still in its infancy due to lack of regulation Read More »
The inclusive Growth Policy Note, “Planning for Uganda’s urbanization” defines Housing as a basic human right, essential for the well being of all mankind. The 1995 constitution of the Republic of Uganda, under the general social and Economic Objectives guarantees to fulfill the fundamental rights of all Ugandans to social justice, economic development, enjoying …
EVOLVING HOUSING POLICIES IN UGANDA SINCE THE COLONIAL TIMES Read More »
By Mutabazi Sam Stewart The Housing Mortgage Market in Uganda is in its embryonic stage. Housing Mortgage is often interchangeably used with the term home loans as they are both used for the determination of accessing long term capitals for acquisition or building houses. The solitary variance is that a mortgage is a dedicated name …
Private Sector cannot grow the Mortgage market. It’s the responsibility of Government Read More »
By Sam Stewart Mutabazi Ever since development economists learnt the importance of cities and urban areas in the advancement of a country and its people, many world leaders gave a lot of attention to ensuring that these places are better organized as to make them more productive and orderly. That cities engines are the engines …
National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of Uganda launched a massive housing project which they claim when complete in ten years will be the largest housing estate in East and Central Africa. The project which will cost approximately $400 Million has been named Solana Lifestyle and Residences. Already the Fund has spent $70 Million on 306 …
NSSF Uganda Building the largest Real Estate Residential Apartments in East Africa. Read More »
This hotel was jinxed right from the beginning. The hotel hardly has any customers. The place is mostly deserted, hardly do you see any patrons visiting. Located right at the top of Nakasero Hill, Pearl of Africa Hotel is one of the largest hotels in Uganda but it hardly does any business currently. Right from …
Pearl of Africa Hotel (AYA) Hotel has been jinxed since inception Read More »
What causes poverty? it’s low incomes. what causes low incomes? it is lack of appropriate skills and lack of education and unemployment. What causes these? It’s is poor planning poor strategy. by who? By those unemployed and partly government. Poverty can also be caused by misuse of resources by individuals. What is poverty anyway? Poverty …
You’ve travelled into this new big city. It’s been a long journey. You really had looked forward to this travel. You were excited to explore this new place. You are booked into this very nice hotel. You check into your room. You freshen up and check out all the facilities. You will be spending five …
How to avoid boredom in your Hotel room when you Travel Read More »
If you were a city authority and there are old dilapidated buildings that do not meet the minimum requirements of the city, what would you do to such buildings? Compel owners to demolish them? Use bull dozers to bring them down by force? Go into negotiations with the owners to agree on time frames on when …
Old dilapidated buildings in the city; KKCA needs to crack the whip! Read More »