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Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority

afforable housing agency in Nigeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ25052401 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority (RSHPDA) is a government agency that has the task of preservation and delivery of affordable housing in Rivers State, Nigeria. It was established under the Housing and Property Development Authority Law No.14 of 1985. Its main goal is to reduce homelessness. It also manages all government-owned housing estates. In December 2013, the agency's general manager and chief executive officer was Iyerefa Cookey-Gam.

Organizational structure

The RSHPDA is governed by a board of directors which is charged with policy, control and management of the Authority. This includes the general manager, secretary to the authority and internal auditor.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority” as afforable housing agency in Nigeria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rivers, State and Housing can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as afforable housing agency in Nigeria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25052401. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.