HARARE City Council (HCC) has plans afoot to construct walk up flats for teachers working in its schools in order to ease accommodation challenges among its employees.
In a statement issued by the Director of Housing and Community Services, Addmore Nhekairo, HCC said it was aware of accommodation challenges being faced by teachers at various council schools in the capital and would soon embark on a pilot project to construct walkup flats in Glenview.
“We will be piloting a project with one school in Glenview where we have given them a piece of land to build walk up flats for the teachers.
“It is our intention that once we have got some lessons from the pilot scheme, we can then replicate it throughout city schools so that our teachers do not face challenges to secure accommodation,” Nhekairo said.
Meanwhile, Local Government minister July Moyo said in May the government, HCC and other stakeholders were in the process of identifying open spaces in Mbare for the construction of modern walk up flats with requisite sanitation facilities.
HCC wants the walk up flats to accommodate its residents who are currently staying in dilapidated bachelor quarters and single-storey structures that no longer meet modern expectations in terms of habitation.
