The Missing Link in Housing Sector Reforms in Nigeria

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS DANUBIUS Vol. 4, no. 1/2012

23 Pages Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last revised: 31 Oct 2012

Date Written: August 28, 2012

Abstract

Housing is a fundamental product for every human being irrespective of financial standing. In fact, world acclaimed American psychologist, Abraham Maslow ranked shelter as second only to food in his hierarchy of human needs. Housing is thus a necessity that provides shelter for man in order for him to actualize his real potentials in life and contribute to the growth of the world.

Despite the importance of housing to the socio-economic development of man and the nation, housing problems have remained endemic and intractable throughout the world. The homeless, the inadequately housed, and the evicted are more numerous in the cities and the countryside across the planet. In today’s world, some 100 million persons are homeless and more than a billion are inadequately housed.

Given this scenario, the lingering question is; why this state of affairs? Why the perennial and unending problems of housing shortages, forced evictions and slum development? Why are there so much prohibitive rentals, mortgage failures, abandoned and uncompleted buildings in our cities? Why the persistent issue of building failure and building collapse in our society? What are the challenges facing the housing sector of our economy and how do we get out of them? What reforms are in place and how far have these reforms addressed the problems? These and other collateral issues are the task of this paper. The paper thus examines these issues with a view at identifying the missing link in the housing sector reform in Nigeria in order to advance the future prospect of the sector.

Keywords: housing, land use, policy reforms, planning

Suggested Citation

Otubu, Akintunde Kabir, The Missing Link in Housing Sector Reforms in Nigeria (August 28, 2012). ACTA UNIVERSITATIS DANUBIUS Vol. 4, no. 1/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2137394 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2137394

Akintunde Kabir Otubu (Contact Author)

University of Lagos - Faculty of Law ( email )

Akoka
Yaba
Lagos, LA Lagos state 234
Nigeria

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