The partnership between Standard Bank Namibia's Buy a Brick initiative and the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) has delivered 73 houses at Onandjaba in the Omusati Region.

The houses are for low-income families at the newly proclaimed Onandjaba Village Council.

Swakopmund Mayor Blasius !Goraseb has called on the central government to urgently release more land for development.

!Goraseb warned that the town is rapidly running out of prime coastal property to accommodate growing investment interest.

35 community members of Aranos in the Hardap Region will soon become proud homeowners, as the town addresses the issue of providing affordable housing to residents.

The residents are beneficiaries of the Aranos Town Council's Build Together Programme, which had been dormant for the past six years. 

In a move to address Namibia's land and housing challenges, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban and Rural Development and Land Reform has unveiled its strategic priorities for the next two years.

Over a hundred residents of Rehoboth Block E have benefited from the town council's ongoing title deed handover and debt write-off initiative.