Over 400 BHC houses vacant

Nonofo Molefhi.PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Nonofo Molefhi.PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Parliament heard yesterday that 428 Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) houses are unoccupied nationwide, with the bulk of the vacant units in Gaborone.

Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Development, Nonofo Molefhi said Gaborone has 159 vacant houses.  Reacting to Francistown West Member of Parliament (MP) Ignatius Moswaane’s inquiry on why these houses were not rented out to public officers at affordable rates, he said BHC was not in a position to rent the units out.

“This is so because the houses are tied to other third parties already,” he said.

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