Residential Upgrading: An Element for Effective Housing Development and Delivery in Contemporary Nigeria

Abstract

Successive regimes strove to implement new housing development schemes without refurbishing the existing substandard, and uninhabitable housing areas. The want of qualitative environment and systematized housing scheme will constitute the greatest threat to Nigeria as current economic downturn deepens. There is an urgent need to improve on Nigeria national housing policy. Qualitative housing and residential upgrading have been in the news for a long time, and should necessarily constitute an important element in effective housing development and delivery in Nigeria going forward. This paper draws immensely from the results of the community study programmes of the Departments of Architecture of Abia State University, Uturu, and Imo State University, Owerri. The discussion is intended to sensitize the public and private sector of Nigeria on the need for an improved shelter and environment in Nigeria.

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