| Abstract: | The speedy development of urbanization in developing countries accompanied with lack of adequate and affordable housing is one of the main development challenges. Though condominium housing is designed to overcome this challenge, the government is unable to match the demand with simultaneous provision of affordable and adequate housing. This study attempts to assess factors influencing shortage 20/80 housing supply of condominium project in Addis Ababa, specifically in Bole Housing and development project office. Descriptive together with explanatory survey method was employed for this study. In addition, purposive sampling technique was used to identify sample size of 115 from target population of 181. Accordingly, a researcher-administered questionnaire using a mobile application and document analysis were used as data collection instruments. The finding of the research shows, 12 major factors influencing housing supply and poor monitoring & evaluation takes the lead with RII of 0.883. This implies, monitoring & evaluation system in practice implemented by the project office is not adequate. Moreover, the result of the study revealed that unavailability of lesson learnt document, repetitive scope change, poor project planning, problems related to project procurement, deprived project financing, poor strategic project management, problems related to contractor selection, unavailability of material in local market, local ground conditions, lack of stakeholder involvement and continuous revision of construction contract duration are the major factors affecting the project delivery. The student researcher highly recommended that good monitoring and evaluation systems should be maintained through establishing checkpoints or milestones in order to keep track of progress and take correction action for a variation from the bench mark early. |
