These days, increasing number of people are moving to dense metropolises, seeking the amenities and opportunities found in large cities. But as city population increases, so does the cost of living, leaving low-income residents with fewer choices for affordable housing.
Today, affordable housing seeks to do more than simply create decent spaces for living. New affordable housing models incorporate sustainable features that reduce the cost of construction, maintenance and technologies. It includes homes that are sustainable, beautifully designed, professionally managed, and connected to services.

Although, affordable housing means different things to different people, due to the economic standard in Nigeria today, housing that is affordable to the low income earners continues to shrink. The concentration of housing needs, among poor families continues to rise.

Affordable housing, however, is not only a compelling concern of the very poor. One need not be poor at all to realize that housing costs are high, or that the housing choices open to people with low/moderate incomes are often limited at best.

If there’s something I have learnt from managing projects, it is the fact that the three Project constraints of Performance, Cost and Time cannot be achieved as “Good, Cheap and Fast” but at the same time one can get a “Good, Affordable, Adequate time” kind of deal.

Housing/Shelter is one of the most basic human needs. Nigeria as a country is faced by a multifarious housing challenges ranging from rapid urbanization, high level of Rural-Urban drift, irregular population growth, high cost of construction/building materials, lack of adequate skills by our so trusted professionals, inadequate financing and poor state of infrastructure.

Furthermore, with the current housing deficit of about 16million units, lack of finance is no doubt the major contributing factor.

Without low income housing, our communities may become un-unified and we may lose the opportunity to interact with people, who may be in different economic or cultural circumstances, to learn from them and to enjoy their company; the main essence of Living.

Understandably, the creation of actual low income housing units takes more than the efforts of a citizen or single group of citizens: it requires highly skilled coordination among many people.



WHY WE MUST BE CONCERNED OVER LOW INCOME HOUSING…………..