Bassirou Kébé, CEO of SA HLM, during the signing of the agreement with the Montpellier developers.
Bassirou Kébé, CEO of the Société nationale des HLM, signed a partnership agreement with the GGL and M & A groups, as well as with the Real Promotion company. He set a target of 25,000 housing units over the next five years.
This is a major first: the Société nationale des HLM du Sénégal will rely on the expertise and know-how of Montpellier developers to achieve its ambitious goal of eventually building 500,000 HLM housing units across the country.
Based on the country's new political dynamic, its CEO, Bassirou Kébé, has just spent a week in the Montpellier metropolitan area to develop contacts and learn about the different types of social housing projects.
“We have a deficit of 500,000 housing units”
“The goal set by our new government is to increase production to enable our fellow citizens to access decent housing”, he explains. He revealed the objective to be achieved: to build 25,000 homes over the next 5 years.
The objective is deliberately ambitious. “We have a deficit of 500,000 social housing units”, he said. To meet the challenge, the Senegalese leader has chosen to rely on the experience of Montpellier developers.
A “win-win” partnership
Bassirou Kébé signed an agreement on Friday, January 24, with three major players in the local (and national) landscape: the GGL group, the M & A and the real estate development company Real Promotion. “We want a win-win partnership to benefit from the French experience and promote exchanges”, specified the general director of SN HLM.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“The signing of this agreement marks the starting point of a collaboration, insisted Laurent Romagnoli, founder of M & A. The next step is now the work of studies in order to define the types of projects and their locations.” The ambition, he added, “is to build quality and sustainable housing”.
The Senegalese population “will double”
The stakes are high. “The Senegalese population will increase from 18 to 35 million inhabitants by 2050, recalls Jean-Loup Leygue, director of development at the GGL group. So we need to provide answers in terms of housing”. The work is already done: “some land projects are already targeted everywhere, both in Dakar and elsewhere, in other regions”.
“There is an urgent need to build, the Senegalese population is growing very quickly”,said Guillaume Herrero, who runs Real Promotion with Marie-Magali Carrillo. He welcomes the idea that “the work will continue in a concrete manner, with technical analyses”.
A former air line project with Dakar
Bassirou Kébé agrees: “we cannot fill the social housing deficit alone, the achievements of which have been neglected in recent years in Senegal”. Hence the advantages of “this type of partnership with stakeholders who have extensive experience”.
This is not the first time that Montpellier has attracted the interest of the Senegalese authorities. A few years ago, the airport authorities of this country had traveled to Montpellier to express their desire to develop air links in order to boost tourism. A Montpellier-Dakar service was envisaged with an airline based in Switzerland. The project never came to fruition.
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