Abstract
This paper focused on the role of the low-income urban dwellers in attempting to solve their ever increasing and complicated housing problem which is a bye product of the enabling concept. Hence, this study was carried out with the main aim of determining the housing type and construction method suitable for the low-income urban dwellers in Bayelsa State Nigeria. This will help to reduce the growth of urban sprawl in the city and reduce the housing deficit for the urban poor. The study employed mixed method approach of qualitative and quantitative with the former taken most of the study. Data were collected by in-depth interview, observation, and questionnaire administration using data presentation instruments (sketches and photographs) to enhance the data presentation. Content analysis was used to analysis the qualitative data, while the quantitative data collected was analysed with both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings revealed that the housing type suitable for the low-income is the non-conventional indigenous housing and development method of incremental housing construction. The recommendations included the adoption of incremental housing construction option, use of local construction methods, improved housing financing, provision of basic services and land availability by government.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.19.2.17349
Highlights
Nigeria’s housing deficit is currently about 1.7million housing units as at 2010 (FinMark, 2010)
According to Jiboye (2011a), the inconsequential attainment recorded the by the Nigerian government in the provision of few housing stocks is not commensurate with the yearly budgetary allocation to the housing sector as most Nigerians remain increasingly homeless
This goes to show that the public sector housing intervention in Nigeria has been more of policy formulation than implementation and housing delivery
Summary
This study employs the mixed-method approach (qualitative and quantitative). The quantitative data and results helped to interpret the qualitative findings (Creswell and Plano-Clark, 2007). The study began with qualitative approach with conduct of open-ended interviews to collect detailed views from sampled respondents and proceeded with quantitative approach with a large survey to be able to generalize results to a larger population. The data collected from the field were analysed using content analysis since the research method was majorly qualitative. Content analysis was carried out by critically analyzing the information collected from the respondents and the observation notes taken by the researcher during the field work. The adopted ways were: First was to Identify the main subject both from the observation notes and the interview responds from the field work; translate them sometimes using the exact words of the respondent to emphasize their points. The retrieved questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics with the results presented in charts and tables
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