APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MASS HOUSING PROGRAMME IN THE FCT, ABUJA
APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MASS HOUSING PROGRAMME IN THE FCT, ABUJA
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2013-02
Authors
UCHENNA, KANU KINGSLEY
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ABSTRACT
Nigeria faces a tremendous shortfall in housing provisions, especially in its
urban areas. Consequently mass housing programme in housing delivery has
been adopted as a means of addressing this problem through public private
partnership (PPP) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. However, in the
context of declining government funding for housing in Nigeria, relying solely on
government programs and subsidies to deliver and manage housing for households is
unsustainable. The research demonstrates the implementation of PPP mass
Housing from year 2000 to 2010 to determine success achieved. Data for the
study was collected through structured questionnaires of 113 housing developers
within mass housing districts already mobilized to site and interview of
government officials. From the assessment of the estates so far developed under
the programme, the findings of the study shows that the private sector have been
allocated well over 12,961 hectares of land to participate in the FCT mass
housing programme, but has not been successful in the delivery of housing and
necessary infrastructure as a result of poor implementation of the programme.
Therefore, mass housing programme of the FCT has since inception in the years
2000 to 2010 achieved success rate of 32.25 percent in delivery of housing units
to the city residents. Recommendations were made for the improvement of mass
housing delivery in FCT. The study concludes that this strategy does not
translate into full achievement of the planned objectives of the programme.
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DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
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APPRAISAL,, IMPLEMENTATION,, MASS,, HOUSING,, PROGRAMME,, ABUJA.