Housing Deficit Attenuation Through Market-Oriented Polycentric Management: Evidence from Nigeria

Nonso Izuchukwu Ewurum ,Nkiruka Evangeline Aso ,Ijeoma Clara Ewurum

doi:10.7176/dcs/10-3-05

Abstract

With a household renumeration of 39 million, 2.6% annual population growth rate, the over 17 million housing deficit in Nigeria is colossal, and remarkably unsustainable. Public housing providers in Nigeria have approached the scourge through a plethora of economic, financial and social strategies that have been proclaimed ineffective from various empirical standpoints. This paper investigates the market-oriented polycentricity of housing deficit attenuation in Nigeria. Survey method was employed on a sample frame of 384 public housing providers. Data was collected using a Market Orientation and Service Performance modelled questionnaire. Hypotheses testing employed Wilcoxon Signed Rank-Test and Spearman Rank Order Correlation. Results indicate that public housing delivery in Nigeria has not followed a market-oriented polycentric approach. The study recommended a consideration of this in the delivery of public housing, while advocating for the development of a Stakeholder Identification Framework for sustainable public housing delivery. Keywords: Housing deficit, Housing delivery, Polycentric management, Market orientation, Stakeholder identification, Demography management DOI: 10.7176/DCS/10-3-05 Publication date: March 31 st 2020

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IntroductionPrimer With a household renumeration of 39 million, the over 17 million housing deficit in Nigeria (World Bank, 2016) is colossal, realistically overwhelming and worryingly on an upward spate
Research Question One investigated the extent to which stakeholder identification is utilized in public housing delivery in Nigeria
From the findings, the study concluded that public housing delivery in Nigeria is not market oriented, and is not polycentric management-compliant

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Introduction

Primer With a household renumeration of 39 million, the over 17 million housing deficit in Nigeria (World Bank, 2016) is colossal, realistically overwhelming and worryingly on an upward spate To address this spate of housing deficit in the country, public housing providers in Nigeria (housing development corporations, ministries, mortgage finance institutions, public private partnerships) have come up with economic, financial and social strategies such as public private partnerships, cooperative housing development loans, National Housing Mortgage Fund, and rent-to-own schemes. Ezeigwe (2015) avers that predictors of urban housing deficit in Nigeria are poverty, urbanization, high cost of land, non-implementation of the housing policies, failure on the side of the government, high cost of building materials and corruption.

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