Logement au Sénégal : Saliou Dramé dénonce "un théâtre à ciel ouvert"
While the government of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko has pledged to embody a profound break with past practices, the social housing sector seems to be escaping this dynamic. Between inflationary promises, opaque decision-making, and institutional confusion, warning signs are multiplying.
Saliou Dramé, the CEO of IMMOSEN and a specialist in local development, is sounding the alarm. He denounces what he calls "open-air theater" management, marked by "a succession of posturing, contradictory announcements, and acts of pure political sleight of hand."
A known deficit, a vague strategy
Senegal faces a housing shortage of 500,000 homes. This widely acknowledged figure embodies the scale of the challenge. Yet the government's response remains confused. Dramé points to "a rhetorical inflation, without a clear roadmap," which discredits public discourse. He points out that "the stated ambition went from 100,000 homes to 300,000, then to 500,000," without a clear master plan being published.
Opacity and favoritism
The announcement of 12,000 projects and 20 "hand-picked" developers raises questions. Dramé asks: "On what precise technical and financial criteria? With what objective and public selection grid?" He denounces a method that "unfortunately recalls the opaque approvals of another age" and regrets that "the old CAPIP did much better, despite the failures of the last few years on Daga-Kholpa."
The transformation of the CGIS into CDC Habitat is, according to him, an example of a shift. "Diverted from its primary mission of financing social housing, it is transforming itself into a competing developer," he asserts, adding that this stance "creates unfair competition with SICAP, SNHLM, and the private sector."
Outdated models that persist
Dramé also criticizes the persistence of the SAFRU and DGPU models, which he considers "the very symbol of financial waste and bureaucratic red tape." For him, "their inefficiency is glaring," and a real break would require "them to be reformed in depth or replaced with agile, efficient, and accountable structures."
Commentaires (16)
la CDC marche depuis des mois sur les plate bandes des structures chargées du financement et de la construction des logements sociaux.
SOS je risque de rentrer au Sénégal sans maison...j'invite les anciens propriétaires à se regrouper pour défendre leurs intérêts.
L'etat doit récupérer les parcelles des prédateurs fonciers et laisser les pauvres gorgolous qui ont juste une parcelle leurs biens.
J'ai honte pour mon pays...
Un patriote d'Italie écoeuré qui a déjà été victime d'escroquerie foncière pour la 4e fois de ma vie.
Il y a encore des résidus du systèmes qui n'ont pas intérêt que les choses s'améliorent
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