One of the major policies shaping Rwanda’s affordable housing landscape is Vision 2050. This policy outlines the government’s overarching approach toward development and growth, establishing a framework for achieving the living standards of high-income countries by 2050. Two of the policy’s pillars, competitiveness and integration as well as urbanization and agglomeration, are related to affordable housing. These two pillars include initiatives for universal access to financial services, strengthening the manufacturing and construction sectors, and universal access to affordable and decent housing.
In order to provide universal access to affordable and decent housing, Rwanda’s government aims to have a formal housing sector that supplies sufficient housing, to integrate more rural households into planned settlements, to develop the housing finance sector so it will be able to provide long-term investment, and to increase the number of public-private partnerships.
Source:
Chiwetu, D. (2021) Rwanda’s affordable housing sector: overview of the institutions, policies and legislation that shape the sector. Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa.