Private Sector Housing Delivery in Nigeria (Challenges and Prospects) A GROUP TERM PAPER REG. No.: HEM 1137- HEM 1146 DEPARTMENT OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT AND VALUATION SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC‚ NASARAWA‚ NASARAWA STATE e-mail: fpnas@yahoo.com‚ Tel.: +234 – 047-66701‚ 66707 047 – 66238 (DL) JULY 27‚ 2012 Private Sector Housing Delivery in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects BY ISAAC‚ OKORONKWO .C. Department of Estate Management and Valuation‚ School of Environmental Studies
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The intricacies and challenges in the realization of public housing delivery in Nigeria. By G. O.Mudashir and M.D. Ahmed‚ phD. Department of Architecture‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Zaria. e-mail: gafarmudashir@yahoo.com mdahmed58@ yahoo.com Keywords: Housing‚ development plan‚ housing quality‚ housing quantity and housing finance. ABSTRACT While decent housing is important to every individual and nation‚ housing crisis remains one of the global problems and a grave and rising challenge
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CONCEPT OF PRICING‚ AFFORDABILITY‚ COST RECOVERY & REPLICABILITY IN HOUSING TABLE OF CONTENT 1 Introduction 3 Concept of Pricing 5 House Price Index 5 Housing Affordability 7 Housing Market Affordability 8 Cost Recovery & Replication 12 Conclusion 12 References 13 INTRODUCTION Shelter is one of the human basic physiological needs (Maslow ’s Hierarchy of Needs). In this modern
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Introduction According to Tonkin (2008)‚ low –cost housing is dwelling units whose total housing costs are deemed affordable to a group of people within a specified income range‚ low cost housing includes social housing and low income housing. In South Africa these houses have been provided through the Reconstruction Development Program (RDP). Since 1994‚ the government has been implementing this program to address the housing backlog which is continuously increasing. The post-Apartheid has era
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critical assessment of social housing in South Africa in terms of its appropriateness. The appropriateness of the housing to meet the needs of the intended user; such as future adaptability or growth‚ along with flexibility‚ in addition to the environment produced by the housing. RDP House (Architecture South Africa‚March/April 2009; pg 102) TANYA VILJOEN 15/01/2013 THE ISSUE The issue this research proposal will deal with is the critical appraisal of social housing in South Africa in terms
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ONE 1. INTRODUCTION Housing is one of the necessities of life like food and clothing. Shelter has been universally accepted as the second most important essential human need after food. Housing in its entire ramification is more than mere shelter since it embraces all the social services and utilities that go to make a community a neighborhood and habitable. The problem is not only restricted to quantity but also to the poor quality of available housing unit and the environment. The result
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CHAPTER THREE PUBLIC HOUSING GLOBALLY AND IN PNG WITH ITS LEGAL FRAMEWORK 3.1. Introduction Economic‚ social and cultural issues are rarely considered to have a connection to human rights in the Pacific Island countries including Papua New Guinea (Moon‚ 2010. p. 4). Most Constitutions of the Pacific Island countries contain a bill of rights‚ which usually cover only civil and political rights. For the most part‚ legal frameworks that protect economic‚ social and cultural rights are not clearly
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Homeless: a social issue One of the major problems that a community suffers from is homelessness‚ which It’s a condition of people who lack regular access to housing. According to the institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at Weingart Center‚ an estimated 254‚000 men‚ women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82‚000 people are homeless on any given night‚ and is caused by several factors such as mental illness‚ drug
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good architecture. Not to mention the society which doesn’t seem to assume architecture as a fundamental issue. The main problem due to the problems‚ there is a very different opinion about how should architects deals with this matter. To make an affordable houses designed by an architect‚ first of all architect should lowering the rates below the standard rates decided by the Indonesian Architects Association. This is not a really ideal solution‚ because ethically those who want to create a price
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3 HOUSING..................................................................................................................................................5 ATLANTA IN THE 1980’S.......................................................................................................................... ATLANTA IN THE 1990’S.......................................................................................................................... HOUSING AUTHORITY DEMOLITIONS
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