Biggest Social Housing in Africa? - Benin Republic (Built with Concrete)

In this video! I show you what is possibly the biggest single social housing project currently ongoing in Africa.
Located 10 minutes drive from Cotonou in Benin Republic, is the country's flagship revolutionary social housing. It's so big that it can be called a city on its own. That is where I am heading.
Here is what I find more amazing about this social housing. The entire over 10,000 housing units are being built with hardcore solid concrete. From the low high risers to the smallest bungalows, they are actually erecting all the structures with concrete. Wait till you see it for yourself.

[@MyAfricaView]

​​Its a planned 235 hectares city on completion.

[@LetsTravellChannel]

Oh wow thanks

[@canismajoris7659]

population with???

[@youssoufoudjibril4556]

Benin is an example to follow in West Africa with many economic social projects, despite having no mining resources. Congratulations to President Talon.

[@MyAfricaView]

Yes I agree

[@Tugela60]

How do they plan to pay for it?

[@LetsTravellChannel]

@@Tugela60 all citizens qualify to move in once you pay one months rent and provide proof of future income and it takes 17 years to finish paying it off. No deposit or mortgage required!

[@Tugela60]

@Opinionated African Traveler And if they have no jobs? Do the buildings just sit and rot? Or get taken over by squatters (what will probably happen). Or will the just sit empty while all the people with no jobs build shacks alongside them? Building a bunch of housing to rent out to people who have no jobs because no one built the economic base to actually support them is beyond stupid. People like you are the reason why Africa is such an economic basket case.

[@kennedychanda9961]

You people of Benin congratulations for such projects, this is the right way to go,infrastructure is what we're lucking in Africa, keep going high!,,from Zambia.

[@panfordkhalifa7343]

Thank you Fabrice Talon for changing the narrative of Black people in the Benin 🇧🇯 quarter.

[@djarafat9054]

Not Fabrice Talon but Patrice Talon.

[@hugo-di6xm]

​@@djarafat9054😂😂😂

[@saturninazangon2123]

The tremendousness of this residential place is very Amazing. The biggest residential neighborhood of west Africa ? Welldone sir Matthew

[@MyAfricaView]

Thank you

[@arnaulddolfi20]

En tant que tutsi , je peux affirmer que le Président Béninois a fait un grand travail !

[@kojobriceamoussouvi683]

Indeed Bénin is one of Africa's growing developing countries with different amenities implementing by the current President Talon,before departure he would have put UP a solide foundation in terms of a rapid developpement ...thank you Mathieu for taking us around this social housing construction taking place in this beautiful country praise God

[@MyAfricaView]

Thank you

[@LetsTravellChannel]

Thanks so much for the drive tour! It’s really massive. Benin 🇧🇯 is one of the least talked about and known countries in Africa. The project is impressive and was hoping that it’s more than 4 stories tall as population is growing everywhere in Africa and this country is small. However, I do realize that it may have been a deliberate move since electricity is not reliable and so can’t rely on elevators or lifts all the time.

[@arnaulddolfi20]

Merci President TALON ! Le Bénin a la chance d'avoir un tel Pésident Visionnaire !

[@Juzzyjuzzy]

Meanwhile in my country Nigeria we believe so much in our overhyped excellence. I’m happy to see other African nations rise. Long May it continue. Next for Benin, is industrialization.

[@Tugela60]

No, next is finding some way of paying for all the stuff they are building now! 😂

[@achillenouatin9397]

@@Tugela60 We will pay every penny 😂

[@LetsTravellChannel]

@@Tugela60 did you watch the video?

[@medessehouzanme1001]

​@@Tugela60industrialisation is already here.

[@Tugela60]

@@medessehouzanme1001 Is that so? Why does the place look like a ghost town then? There is no one living there.

[@eugenecomlan]

I love to see that, thanks you mr President

[@adeniyi6543]

Imagine just paying one month rent and ability to continue paying monthly for 17 years wow

[@Tugela60]

Completely unheard of! No other country allows that! Kudos great president!! Long may you reign! God willing, may all your opponents accidently fall out windows!!

[@Tugela60]

@@paularmstrong2306 I doubt it.

[@hugo-di6xm]

That's why enquiries will be made about your integrity and your bank account history.

[@abuuidriis9741]

Wow This Is Massive Project

[@blaisehermannyehouenou2811]

Too big 🎉❤

[@iwehclementine3772]

Wow!!!Fantastic.

[@MyAfricaView]

Thank you

[@lindaarchinal9008]

This is coming up because I watched Itchy Boots in Benin today. What an interesting country, looks like a lot of pride also.

[@sammuelsammuel123]

God please protect my African people.❤

[@sidBR1223]

Nice .thanks u

[@shanie9411]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@judicaeldossou5756]

❤❤❤❤

[@abdoabakar3261]

👍

[@julesmedomin12]

Benin is in the midst of a developed boom 🇧🇯🤍 President Patrice Talon has launched a big challenge to the next presidents 🤍 in all areas. In this city you can't find everything: there is church, mosque, school, hospital, fiber internet , police office, super market, parks etc…

[@MyAfricaView]

Thank you

[@RodasDaga-xr8cs]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🇧🇯

[@vinniewinnie7]

Concrete is not a sustainable material and is not adapted to high temperatures. These houses will be heat sinks that will require AC thus putting pressure on electricity grid! Would have been better to use brick and wood for parts of the structure! Otherwise great project with affordability in mind!

[@Tugela60]

Does not matter. Have you seen how many people are wandering around doing their business in these videos? 😂 No one lives there, so all these concrete boxes will never be occupied anyway.

[@achillenouatin9397]

@@Tugela60 We will see about that the governement did not wake up one day to implement this project. Stop being cynical

[@LetsTravellChannel]

@@Tugela60 where are you from?

[@Tugela60]

@@LetsTravellChannel Not a dump like Benin 😀

[@hugo-di6xm]

​@@Tugela60The estate is still under construction and this is not a market. It's a new estate far from cotonou.

[@wallstreet497]

Ivory coast may have the biggest housing project financed by Abu Dhabi's. With so 😅 much happening in Africa transformation it's hard to say the biggest unless you check carefully

[@franki2022]

Ouedo is indeed the largest social housing project in Africa because it will consist of 20,000 social housing units spread over an area of ​​235 hectares, while Riyadh city in Abidjan will only be built on 28 hectares. I understand that you always want to put your Dear Ivory Coast ahead, but check the numbers first dear sir.

[@franki2022]

Ouedo is a New city in construction, at the end of the project, you Can find everything there

[@gillosdesouza4171]

​@@franki2022 Cote d'Ivoire's project consists of 60,000 social housing, so three times that of Benin. And it makes sense because it is funded by the UAE.

[@franki2022]

@@gillosdesouza4171 You are a liar, stop lying like that. Before posting my message, I was on Google. Show me the documentation link of 60,000 social housing of Riyadh city. I know you want to show us that your country is the best in Africa but stop joking with us 😂😂😂😂

[@youslifetrip]

I don't know about Ivorians, it's their politicians who lie to them like that or they are themselves aware of their lies 😂😂😂. These are the consequences when we only know silks anywhere in Africa.😅

[@atir]

Same looks like it was in USSR

[@codedjango]

what about foreigners? can a non-african invest here? if so, how?

[@LetsTravellChannel]

Video is only 5 minutes and has all the info you require

[@paulparoma]

It's going to be a black neighborhood.

[@LetsTravellChannel]

Benin 🇧🇯 is in black Africa so yes. Oh we have no problem living around each other ❤. We enjoy it.

[@paulparoma]

@@LetsTravellChannel I know!

[@greenhornet8262]

Is Benin one of the francaphone countries that must pay France some of their money?

[@MyAfricaView]

Yes

[@greenhornet8262]

@@MyAfricaView I feel that putting more effort into ending that should be just as big as this effort

[@Tugela60]

Benin does not HAVE to pay France money. They use France to store their money to keep it safe, because if it was kept in Benin it would be stolen by corrupt officials.

[@Tugela60]

Are you sure that is not a prison they are building, because it sure looks like one 😂

[@LetsTravellChannel]

Go find some healing

[@gastonakouete6650]

To say that this housing project in Benin is the biggest social housing in Africa is to throw dust into the eyes of the good people of Benin and the entire African continent. I know you are being paid to do your shoddy findings which are not based on any qualitative and quantitative research. I saw the housing project. It is wealth it in a small country like Benin but not definitely the biggest housing project in Africa. Please get your facts right and accurate and stop the political propaganda and framing

[@MyAfricaView]

Hey no one is paying me a penny. Before you come here to write rubbish you should present fact. This is the single largest social housing estate in Africa. Bigger than any other particular social housing estate.

[@gastonakouete6650]

@@MyAfricaView So you are accusing me of writing a rubbish? Oh! My God! Look at this poor non-entity media outlet that is peddling falsehood in the name of journalism in Africa!

[@hugo-di6xm]

​@@gastonakouete6650Abeg leave this place.

[@saturninazangon2123]

​@@gastonakouete6650bring datas instead of attacking nerveously