Housing deficit in Nigeria is being put
at between 12 to 18 million. This perennial shortage witnessed today has
bloated over the years due to increasing population, rural-urban migration,
unemployment and inaccessibility to reasonable funds for developers and buyers;
and of course, insufficient and skewed government policies. Professionals and
government alike have identified these problems, proposed solutions and maps
out, almost on daily basis, intervention programmes and advocacy fora. But in
all these, all we see are many turnings without a movement. Olusesan Ogunyooye
takes a look at the challenges of mass housing in Nigeria; and writes...
