Talatona – The Minister of Youth and Sports, Palmira Leitão Barbosa, said on Monday in Luanda that the Angolan government has developed concrete policies for young people's access to decent housing.
According to the minister, who was speaking at the Forum on Public Policy Experiences on Housing for Youth of the CPLP, many young people have already been able to have access to their own home in the state's numerous housing projects, such as centralities and housing units built throughout the country.
'We have not yet reached the desired and ideal number, we still have young people without housing and without social and economic stability,' he said.
However, he said that the State will no longer build housing, such as centralities and housing units, and will only build social houses through infrastructural land, giving way to policies that facilitate directed self-construction.
He emphasized that it is necessary for the member states of the CPLP to continue to seek possible solutions to the problems of youth, not only in housing but also in all the pillars that face difficulties.
For the minister, the holding of the forum will strengthen ties of cooperation and align concrete strategies in the field of youth and sport, a driving force and driver of the development of any society.
'Youth are the largest and most expressive proportional fringe of many countries and Africa in general, so we must continue to put them on the governance agendas of our states,' he stressed.
In turn, the Executive Secretary of the CPLP, Manuel Lapão, stressed that adequate and affordable housing leads to benefits for health, education and increases economic opportunities.
For him, housing contributes directly and indirectly to the implementation of most of the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as a platform for the resilience and sustainability of households, boosting the Human Development Index.
'The housing crisis is a pressing issue in the CPLP space and with rising housing prices and their inadequate supply and lack of affordable options leaving millions of people in despair to find a place they can call home,' he concluded.
At the meeting, they also discussed, among other topics, 'the experience of Public Policies on housing for youth in the CPLP'.
The meeting is also a preview of the meeting of CPLP youth ministers that will take place on the 30th, the date on which Angola will occupy the organization's youth portfolio. CHALK/ JCB/DOJ
