5.1 Infrastructure

Regarding infrastructure, the town has four outlet/ inlet roads connecting it to different weredas in the zone, surrounding zones, towns in the Region and Addis Ababa. The distribution of roads as per the type of construction materials shows that 29.1km are gravel, 29.4 km asphalt; 3.3km coble stone and 270 km compacted earth roads. In addition to these, the town gets 24 hours electric supply from the national grid, mobile and fixed telephone lines, internet services, and a branch postal office having 300 boxes. The main water supply source of the town is potable underground water distributed through piped network and public taps. The town has open ditches to discharge storm water.

5.2 Housing

There are 12,942 houses built of different materials in Hosaina town. The housing backlog is estimated to be 3000 houses.

5.3 Transport

There is daily inter-urban transport service to and from 19 small and medium towns. The town has a bus station. There are also 90 Bajaj and 24 minibus taxis and 720 horse-drawn carts giving intra-urban transport service.