Abstract
This article assesses housing quality in Ibeju-Lekki, a peripheral settlement outside Lagos metropolitan region. Using purposive sampling, 370 housing units from clusters of 16 periurban settlements constituted the sample size. Primary data was sourced through structured questionnaires, interview (with local planning personnel) and observation schedules administered through a field survey. Using Statistical Package for Social Sciences, data analysis was done using descriptive analysis to generate frequencies and percentages on socio-economic profile, neighbourhood quality, locational quality, dwelling quality, and building materials used. Tests of correlation were conducted on the mean of variables of neighbourhood quality, locational quality and building materials, derived through recoding of variables by means of Transform statistical tool, to establish the factors influencing housing quality in the study area. The findings show a significant positive correlation between household income and housing quality. The latter is found to be influenced by respondents’ socio-economic attributes, building materials, neighbourhood quality, and locational quality in the study area. It can be concluded that socio-economic characteristics, predominantly income of households, play a major role in the level of housing quality that can be accessed in the study area. It is, therefore, recommended that the state government and private developers should promote alternative building materials, in order to enhance housing affordability by the low-income group. This will reduce the spread of informal housing development. In addition, the state government should align urban policy to eliminate disparity in infrastructural development which has impacted on poor neighbourhood and locational quality in Lagos peri-urban settlements. Keywords: Dwelling quality, housing quality, locational quality, neighbourhood quality, peri-urban settlements
Highlights
The interaction of different internal and external factors plays a role in the measurement of housing quality in peri-urban settlements (Allen, 2010; Chirisa, 2010)
The predominant income group in the study area was the high-income group earning above N150,000 ($420) monthly. This income group constitutes 44.6% of the entire population. This runs contrary to the belief that the majority of peri-urban settlements is mainly dominated by the low- and the middle-income groups
In the middle-income group, 19.1% earn N50,000 ($140)-N150,000 ($420) monthly and is the least represented in the study area
Summary
The interaction of different internal and external factors plays a role in the measurement of housing quality in peri-urban settlements (Allen, 2010; Chirisa, 2010). The geographical and ethnographic composition of the residents plays an important role in shaping housing quality in peri-urban settlements (Rapoport, 1998). Other factors such as neighbourhood quality, locational quality and regional response to patterns of development show that housing quality as a function is not limited to physical components of construction, but rather entails human satisfaction with urban attributes and facilities, environmental quality and locational advantages (El Din, Shalaby, Farouh & Elariane, 2013; Rapoport, 1998). Environmental quality, which has to do with good sanitation, security, parking space, light and drainage, and locational quality of housing, which is the spatial position relative to the central business district, are all external factors that create a gap in services delivery, giving room to infiltration of informal development and infrastructure inadequacy in peripheral towns (Chirisa, 2010; Allen, 2003)
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