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Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria

Globally, several studies have affirmed that the population of those who are displaced with respect to housing is on the rise. Developing nations in the continent of Africa to include Nigeria are reportedly not spared of this development. Similarly, the low-income earners have been reported as the w...

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Main Authors: Sunday, Dania, Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah, Mazlan, Ain Naadia
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Language:English
Published: Ascociacion Internacional de Economia Aplicada 2021
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94284/1/NorHasanahAbdul2021_SustainableAffordableHousingStrategies.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/eea.v39i4.4571
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spelling my.utm.942842022-03-31T15:28:59Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94284/ Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria Sunday, Dania Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah Mazlan, Ain Naadia TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Globally, several studies have affirmed that the population of those who are displaced with respect to housing is on the rise. Developing nations in the continent of Africa to include Nigeria are reportedly not spared of this development. Similarly, the low-income earners have been reported as the worst hit of this global menace. Shanty dwellings, squatter settlements and informal settlements have similarly been reported to be homes to low-income earners who constitute over 90% of the population of Nigeria. This study therefore presented sustainable affordable housing strategies as an emerging concept through which low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria can be eliminated. The study relied on a systematic review of literature to arrive at its findings. Findings from the study revealed that sustainable affordable housing strategies through which Nigerian low-income earners housing challenges can be addressed can best be explored from the social, economic, environmental, institutional and technological components of sustainable affordable housing. The study calls on the government, stakeholders, policy makers as well as private developers to adopt sustainable affordable housing strategies for low-income housing provision in Nigeria. The study’s outcome will contribute to existing body of knowledge in that it will provide useful information with respect to low-income housing provision and equally re-direct research interest on low-income housing in Nigeria and other developing nations. Ascociacion Internacional de Economia Aplicada 2021-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94284/1/NorHasanahAbdul2021_SustainableAffordableHousingStrategies.pdf Sunday, Dania and Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah and Mazlan, Ain Naadia (2021) Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria. Estudios de Economia Aplicada, 39 (4). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1133-3197 http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/eea.v39i4.4571 DOI:10.25115/eea.v39i4.4571
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Sunday, Dania
Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah
Mazlan, Ain Naadia
Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
description Globally, several studies have affirmed that the population of those who are displaced with respect to housing is on the rise. Developing nations in the continent of Africa to include Nigeria are reportedly not spared of this development. Similarly, the low-income earners have been reported as the worst hit of this global menace. Shanty dwellings, squatter settlements and informal settlements have similarly been reported to be homes to low-income earners who constitute over 90% of the population of Nigeria. This study therefore presented sustainable affordable housing strategies as an emerging concept through which low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria can be eliminated. The study relied on a systematic review of literature to arrive at its findings. Findings from the study revealed that sustainable affordable housing strategies through which Nigerian low-income earners housing challenges can be addressed can best be explored from the social, economic, environmental, institutional and technological components of sustainable affordable housing. The study calls on the government, stakeholders, policy makers as well as private developers to adopt sustainable affordable housing strategies for low-income housing provision in Nigeria. The study’s outcome will contribute to existing body of knowledge in that it will provide useful information with respect to low-income housing provision and equally re-direct research interest on low-income housing in Nigeria and other developing nations.
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author Sunday, Dania
Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah
Mazlan, Ain Naadia
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Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah
Mazlan, Ain Naadia
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title Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
title_short Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
title_full Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
title_fullStr Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable affordable housing strategies for solving low-income earners housing challenges in Nigeria
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publisher Ascociacion Internacional de Economia Aplicada
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