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Delivery Of Low Income Housing In Nigeria Prospects And Challenges
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Housing is paramount to human existence as it ranks
among the top three needs of man. Its provision has always been of great
necessity to man.
As a unit of the environment housing has
profound influence on the health, efficiency, social behaviour,
satisfaction and general welfare of the community. It is a reflection of
the cultural, social and economic values of a society and one of the
best historical evidences of the civilization of a country (Olotuah,
2000).
The provision of adequate housing in any country is
very vital as housing is a stimulant of the national economy. Housing is
a set of durable assets, which accounts for a high proportion of a
country’s wealth and on which households spend a substantial part of
their income. It is for these reasons that housing has become a regular
feature in economic, social and political debates often with highly
charged emotional contents (Agbola, 1998).
In Nigeria, like
in many other developing nations of the world housing problems are multi
dimensional. The problems of population explosion, continuous influx of
people from the rural to the urban centres, and the lack of basic
infrastructure required for good standard of living have compounded
housing problems over the years. Access to this basic need by the poor
who constitute the largest percentage of the world population has
remained a mirage and it needs to be critically addressed. Ogieto (1987)
has observed that the disparity between the price and quantity of
housing on the one hand, and the number of households and the money
available to them to pay these prices on the other, constitutes the
central problem of housing. The cost at which houses reach the market
goes a long way to determine affordability. Where the unit cost of
houses is abnormally high only a few people are able to afford the
houses. According to Okupe and Windapo (2000) the gap between income and
shelter cost in Nigeria is very wide.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The research is an assessment of the delivery of low income housing in Nigeria, it analyzes the prospect and challenges of delivery of low income housing in Nigeria and intends to profer recommendations toward an efficient delivery of low income housing in Nigeria. ... Continue reading---
