Housing Condition In Nigeria Essay

EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF HOUSING DEFICIT ON ARCHITECTURE: A CASE OF NIGERIA.
Adeyanju I. Boluwatife
Department of Architecture, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria,

Abstract: Nigeria faces a tremendous shortfall in housing provisions, especially in its urban areas. Research shows that Nigeria has an estimated housing deficit of over 17 million units. Problems encountered by the government and private organizations, tend to limit the attempts to balance the gap between housing demand and supply. The growth of the population especially in the urban areas of Nigeria has assumed an alarming proportion, therefore the provision of urban infrastructure and housing to meet this demand is not proportional, which has resulted in acute shortage of housing. This deficit in housing has both negative and positive impact on the quantity and quality of housing in Nigeria. The paper includes a review of literatures stating the current housing condition in Nigeria. Using data gotten primarily by observation and secondarily by review of other literature, the paper researches on the present impact of housing deficiency on Architecture. The paper provides the positive and negative impacts of housing shortage on architecture in Nigeria, such as,

The production of housing is has been influenced largely by policies, innovation and the ability to sustain the environment. Housing encompasses all social services and utilities that make life meaningful and the environment habitable. The problems that affect readily housing delivery in Nigeria are enormous and very complex. These problems in most of our urban cities in Nigeria encompasses the availability of housing units both in quality and the number available which in turn has resulted into congested homes and community and the resultant of this is thievery increasing pressure on the infrastructural facilities which will rapidly