Housing policy can therefore be seen as a statement of intent to achieve given housing objectives. International journal of civil engineering, construction. The effect of government policy on housing delivery in nigeria. The effect of government policy on housing delivery in. The city hosts politically exposed nigerians from across the country, not just its northern muslim elites. Housing, infrastructural provision, infrastructures, public housing estate, ibadan, nigeria. But what will interest nigerians now is to identify the problems associated with housing provision in the country and find. Housing is one of the most important needs of individuals next to food and clothing. Fec to approve revised national housing policy today. Laudable promises, great expectations, colossal failure adenrele awotona university of jos, nigeria abstract on 11 june 1976. Housing, neighbourhood quality and quality of life 235 developed a set of criteria derived from the literature on housing quality indicators. The sandcastles data are broadly representative of nigerias geographically and ethnically.
Urban housing policy and its implications on the lowincome earners of a harare municipality, zimbabwe wisdom moyo zimbabwe open university, bulawayo, zimbabwe abstract domestic shelter is an important basic need in all societies. The challenges of housing development and needs in abuja nigeria. Achieving sustainable housing development in nigeria. Obtaining and reporting critical aggregate information about the characteristics and service needs of homeless persons. Government made a decision to formulate an urban housing policy which is geared towards achieving its development goals.
Housing policy in nigeria can be defined as the governments action on its peoples housing objectives. In nigeria, housing is generally inadequate in the rural areas in terms of quality, while the major problem in urban areas is more of quantity, although quantity is also an issue. Oct 19, 2016 housing policy in nigeria is as old as the history of the country. This is a very big challenge to the building industry. This paper appraises the nigerian housing policies from1999 till date visavis the place of the lowincome earners in the policy in having access to affordable housing and decent accommodation as entrenched in the national housing policies. These have led to serious overcrowding and massive development of squatter settlements and slums. The concept of the national housing fund or proposed in the national housing policy is to ensure a continuous flow of longterm funding for housing development and to provide affordable loans for low income housing. Nigeria needs to produce 720,000 housing units per annum based on an estimate of 9 dwelling units a year per 1,000 of population. Federal ministry of works and housing housing policy 96 pages. An assessment of the housing policy performance towards. The nigerian national housing policy in perspective. The study addresses the problem of housing delivery systems, the supply and the demand issues with a view to inform policy on housing provision structure, want and request towards improving the level of delivery in nigeria.
Pdf the effect of government policy on housing delivery in. Housing policy in nigeria is as old as the history of the country. Research into the strategy for meeting urban housing needs of. Knitting together housing and service providers within a local community into more coordinated and effective delivery systems for the benefit of homeless clients. There are also significant housing affordability differences between socioeconomic groups, housing tenure groups and states in nigeria. The approval of the policy is one of the two issues the minister of lands, housing and urban development, ama pepple, would present to the council for deliberation today. This situation provides the need to take another look at the current housing sector in nigeria in respect of low income housing group with a view to improving the national economic development. Dubai property ownership cuts across all of nigerias elite political, ethnic, and religious groups. A case study of port harcourt low income housing programme article pdf available october 2015 with 8,343 reads how we measure.
The identified problems that are associated with the implementation of housing policies in nigeria are poor administration, inadequate funding, insufficient infrastructural amenities, as. The recorded history of formal intervention into the housing sector in nigeria dated back to the colonial administration, after the unfortunate outbreak of the bubonic plaque of 1928 in lagos. This paper proposes a broadbased framework for assessing relationships between input, output and outcomes of public housing. The shortage of housing is one of the factors responsible for the poor environmental quality across nigeria. Developer identifies way out of nigerias housing problem. It seeks to address limitations of existing approaches where one theory or discipline has the upper hand in evaluating public housing programmes. Basically, whenever the government gets directly involved in the housing objectives of its people, either by taking actions to provide shelter for her citizenry or by taking actions to improve the quality of the shelter of its people, we are talking about government housing policy. Housing development in nigeria humanitarian library. This paper appraises the nigerian housing policies from1999 till date visavis the place of the low. Basically, whenever the government gets directly involved in the housing objectives of its people, either by taking actions to provide shelter for her citizenry or by taking actions to improve. Policies are thus well reasoned, carefully articulated and presented documents. Laudable promises, great expectations, colossal failure adenrele awotona university of jos, nigeria abstract on 11 june 1976, delegates from nigeria and 1 other nations. Jan 05, 2010 national housing policy for nigeria by nigeria.
It describes the context of lagos, as an emerging megacity. The paper advocates for renewed collaboration and commitment among stakeholders in housing and urban development in nigeria. Thus, we can broadly categorize its historical development under the five distinct phases of the colonial period before 1960, the post independence period. Nigeria would not have been possible without the cooperation of numerous officials of the nigerian. Ministry of agriculture, irrigation and water development p.
Housing prices can be reduced by the appropriate choice of standards, better urban land management, improved efficiency in the building sector, and assistance to icformal sector hous n. Housing at the centre reestablishes the important role. Challenges of housing in terms of quality and quantity appear to be the same all over the world. Housing policy and programmes requirement will be observed and appropriate suggestions are offered based on establish criteria of sustainable housing policies. Unhabitat proposes that this shift, referred to as housing at the centre, comes to position housing as a priority in the public debate around urbanization, integrated within the framework of national urban policies and urban planning. Other challenges of shd are housing affordability, lack of coherent policy. This policy is based on the national objectives contained in the vision 2020, and the economic development and poverty reduction strategy edprs, while taking into account the principles of decentralisation and good governance. Twenty years on, millions of nigerians are still homeless while many others are living in indecent houses. Implementation and the challenges of the mass housing scheme.
This policy was exclusively directed at the provision of housing for the white colonial population settled in specially protected and developed areas. Housing policy in nigeria government policies for housing nigerias urban poor and the working class. A second group of policies can increase affordability through housing finance. The nigerian housing policy nhp, 2006 defines housing as the process of. The promulgation of the national housing fund decree heralded the emergence and. Thus, peterside 2003 noted that nigerias drive towards housing for all as contained in the national housing policy, which aims at providing affordable and qualitative housing for all had so far been on paper with no serious efforts, deliberate or.
The needy have less access to housing while the less needy have greater chances of accessing housing. Planning, housing, and land policy december 1988 pdf version september 2000 robert w. Evolution and development of nigerian housing policies and programmes 19281979 the recorded history of formal intervention into the housing sector in nigeria dated back to the colonial. This has become necessary in view of the critical role housing plays in the life of an individual and society at large. The challenges of housing development and needs in abuja. At a 2day nigeria meeting organized by the overseas development institute, london, 1617 june 2004 contact. There exists a persistent disparity in available houses in nigeria with. Narratives and detailed references are provided in the body of the report, with a concluding synthesis of general observations about the state of housing research in the region and suggestions for prioritizing future research activities to fill in the gaps. In 1991, the national housing policy was promulgated in order to propose possible solutions to the housing problems in nigeria. An assessment of the housing policy performance towards public low income housing provision and management in lagos, nigeria abimbola olufemi omolabi, pauline w.
Housing delivery system, need and demand springerlink. Housing which satisfies these concepts can be considered adequate. Evaluation of public housing programmes in nigeria. However, like in the past, efforts remain fragmented. A case study of port harcourt low income housing programme article pdf available october. Pdf the effect of government policy on housing delivery. As the national urban development policy of nigeria observes, inadequate housing is a major problem facing cities in the country and which often manifests itself in, among other ways, the inability of supply to cope with demand, poor housing conditions, and paucity of basic infrastructure services and amenities.
Despite these policies, housing in ghana is characterized by inadequate housing stock, overcrowding, congestion, housing decay, and neighbourhood blight. Housing needs for low income earners has reached an alarming stage in nigeria. The methodology adopted for the study includes interviews and analyses of data collected during the field investigations. Adebayo discipline of town and regional planning, school of built environment and development studies, howard campus, university of kwazulu natal, durban south africa abstract. The draft national housing policy 2004 defined housing as the process of providing a large number of residential. Policy implications, constraints, and prospects nigerian peps purchase of dubai propertyif carried out using illgotten gainsis a serious. The current national housing policy that deemphasises government involvement in housing. The multiple roles of housing in the economy are first irvestigcted from a theoretical perspective and then from actual case studies of the construction and housing sectors. On the supply side, numerous government policies have earlier aimed at disabling the massive shortage through numerous housing reform programmes. Immediately before unit construction is completed, the shortterm loans used to meet planning and construction costs are paid off by the sale of shortterm or longterm pha serial bonds. The assessment of the quality of housing in each of the estates was conducted through expert rating by four independent assessors, using penalty scoring, and operating within similar timeframes. Particularly emblematic of the frenetic activity but lack of strategic decisionmaking was the move to send five. It highlights the need to stimulate a policy that will facilitate infrastructural development alongside housing delivery.
Urban housing affordability and housing policy dilemmas in. Implementation and the challenges of the mass housing. The challenges facing public housing authorities 539 out the function, and takes competitive bids for construction. That nigeria has a housing deficit of 17 million units is no longer news. Stakeholders, laws and policy regulations, and access to adequate finance. The research highlights the fragility of the poors claim to the right of permanent residency emphasizing inadequate state funding and poverty. Sustainable development, housing, urbanization, governance, nigeria. This study examines this policy and its implications on the low income earners of zimbabwe. According to the 1991 nigerian national housing policy, federal republic of nigeria lack adequate monitoring and evaluation of housing policy implementation. Implication for planning and lowincome housing delivery in lagos, nigeria implications for lowincome housing in lagos, nigeria. One group of policies affects the organizational framework. The study identified the federal government and nigerian citizens as major stakeholders with the land use act of 1978 as being most significant factor hindering shd performance. Nigeria, housing as a policy, as well as the national housing policy.
Box 304 capital city lilongwe 3 september 2016 national agriculture policy. It is against this background that this study aims to assess the performance of the housing policy towards enhancing the low income group access to. Housing policy can therefore be seen as a tool that is used in overcoming housing problems, and consequently for the achievement of sustainable housing. Housing is bound up with concepts such as shelter itself, privacy, location, environmental amenity and investment aribigbola, 2000. The challenges of housing development and needs in abuja fig working week 2012 knowing to manage the territory, protect the environment, evaluate the cultural heritage rome, italy, 610 may 2012 6 4. Jul 18, 2017 that nigeria has a housing deficit of 17 million units is no longer news. Aduwo department of architecture, college of science and technology covenant university, canaan land, ota, ogun state, nigeria there is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not. This signifies the ushering of nigerian public housing programmes intervention. The challenges facing public housing authorities in a. Pdf the seventh goal of the mdgs is to ensure environmental.
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