Abstract: Government efforts at mass housing have been wrought with failure because most of the approaches have considered local cheap building materials indigenous to the local environment. That was why mast of the development plans on housing have not achieved their target goals. This study focuses on the achievement of mass housing through the local unstabilized laterite blocks. It looks at past government efforts at mass housing, the benefit of earth construction, the constraint in the use of laterite blocks and how it can be surmounted and the machineries to be in place to make laterite an acceptable alternative the expensive sandcrete blocks