By Staff Reporter
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has said it will soon construct 300 semi-detached housing units in Hwange to avail decent accommodation for its employees.
ZPC said the power company was working with the Hwange Local Board (HLB) in the implementation of the project.
“Work is already underway; the site plan is now available and we will be surveying the site together with the HLB.
“In total we are targeting 300 semi-detached housing units which will accommodate 600 families,” said ZPC.
The nation is also facing accommodation challenges. To alleviate the national accommodation challenges, the 34th Cabinet Briefing approved to re-capitalise the National Housing Fund, the Housing Guarantee Fund portfolios and to institute forthwith a moratorium on the disposal of Government Pool properties.
Due to a number of challenges, a number of home seekers have been duped by land owners, but Government has since taken a decision to stop offering land to land barons.
In recent years, land barons, individual land developers and cooperatives have been at the forefront of land development for housing. Usually the schemes resulted in chaos and corruption, leading to the sprouting of illegal settlements, all of which should soon be in the past because of Government’s intervention to bring sanity to the national accommodation challenges.
