The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Footstool Estates Limited, Fanda Augustine, has called for deeper collaboration between government institutions and private real estate developers to sustainably tackle Nigeria’s widening housing deficit. In a statement issued on Wednesday on the state of housing in Nigeria, Augustine stressed that meaningful progress in affordable housing depends on deliberate policy reforms, easier access to land and sustainable financing mechanisms. He explained that affordable housing should not be equated with constructing low-cost buildings but should instead focus on providing quality, durable homes that ordinary...