Mozambique: PM inaugurates housing complex in Marracuene – Watch

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Mozambique: PM inaugurates housing complex in Marracuene – Watch

9:13 CAT | 13 Sep 2021

Photo: TVM

Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Friday inaugurated a housing complex consisting of 64 apartments, built in the district of Marracuene, in the southern province of Maputo.

The complex, consisting of two and three bedroom apartments, each including a living room, an open space kitchen, a bathroom and a balcony, is part of the second phase of the Zintava Project, and cost 247 million meticais (about 3.9 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate).

Under phases one and two of the project, 128 houses have already been built. The project is part of the Mass Social Housing Programme, known as “Habita Mozambique”, and is carried out by the Housing Development Fund (FFH).

Addressing the ceremony, Rosario said the implementation of Habita Mozambique, which is part of the government’s Housing Strategy and Policy, is intended to ensure decent housing for Mozambican households across the country.

.“From our point of view, decent housing means a house built with resilient material located in appropriate areas, where there are basic infrastructures such as adequate sanitation and access,” Rosario stressed.

The apartments are being sold on a mortgage basis. If the beneficiaries keep up the mortgage payments, they will eventually own the apartments. The payments are 16,900 and 19,900 meticais a month for a two bedroom and three bedroom apartment respectively. Rosario said regular payment of the mortgages was important so that the government can build houses for other Mozambicans.

The Minister of Public Works and Housing, Osvaldo Machatine, did not want a repeat of the problems with the apartments in the Maputo Olympic Village, where the beneficiaries have not been paying their mortgages regularly.

If the occupants keep failing to pay, Machatine warned, they may face the risk of extreme measures, including eviction.

Watch the TVM report.