{"id":245948,"date":"2026-09-29T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n300m-left-to-tackle-namibias-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:30:19","slug":"namibia-n300m-left-to-tackle-namibias-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n300m-left-to-tackle-namibias-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$300m Left to Tackle Namibia&#8217;s Housing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>The Ministry of Urban and Rural Development says about N$300 million remains available for housing construction, but the funds must be shared among 59 local authorities amid growing demand for serviced land and housing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The ministry&#8217;s deputy director of housing development, Kornelius Taseb, told the National Assembly standing committee on urban and rural development and land reform last Wednesday that budget constraints were limiting the government&#8217;s ability to respond to the housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Urban and Rural Development says about N$300 million remains available for housing construction, but the funds must be shared among 59 local authorities amid growing demand for serviced land and housing. The ministry&#8217;s deputy director of housing development, Kornelius Taseb, told the National Assembly standing committee on urban and rural development and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,3723,8522,7781,33171,4706,724,9052,257,254,11164],"class_list":["post-245948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-housing","tag-left","tag-n300m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}