Residential Housing Satisfaction of the Urban Poor in Calabar Metropolis, Nigeria
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In Nigerian urban areas, policy initiators of residential housing are of the opinion that any housing meets the satisfaction needs of the urban poor without due regards to environmental quality variables of the surroundings. This undoubtedly have influence on the various types of public residential houses developed for the urban poor. However, residential housing satisfaction goes beyond considering the technical quality of the components of the house to include how well the building and its environment have met the needs and expectations of its dwellers. This study undertakes a differential evaluation in residential housing satisfaction of two subgroups within the urban poor. The paper made use of cross-sectional survey of 250 households, drawn from 11 wards cutting across different urban poor socio-economic strata in Calabar metropolis. Findings showed that the urban poor have low level of residential housing satisfaction with variation existing between subgroups. This implies that housing policy formulators in Nigeria need to review the old tenement structures and include normative housing needs (infrastructure and amenities such as the quality satisfaction attributes) of the urban poor that have been overlooked over the years to articulate the overall integrated housing development framework in Nigeria.
Source: Architecture Research
Authors: Abigail Sylvester, A Yaro Margaret, A Agbor Emmanuel, U. S. Daniel
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W99459934