Tanzania, March 14 -- In the latter part of February 2024, the Workers Housing Investment (WHI) announced that it was implementing its second phase of a robust project for the Public Servants Housing Scheme (PSHS) which seeks to construct 1,000 affordable houses in various regions of Tanzania including Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Morogoro, as well as in the country's capital city of Dodoma.

This immediately triggers a question: What is affordable housing?

Affordability is about the relationship between the price of the house and the income of the house seekers. The price of the house depends on the various factors including the cost of building materials, site topography, house design, house size including number of rooms, existence and qual...