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For any nation, the performance of housing sector is
often the barometer by which the health or ill-health of a nation is measured
or determined therefore for any nation; housing is set for durable asset
which account for a higher proportion of a country’s wealth and on which
household spend a sustainable part of his income. Sustainable house is not a
house that only generates good quality and affordable housing, also alleviate
the befitting equitability between the rich and the poor we generate the
environment rather than destroying it and empower the poor to have access to
decent houses at affordable cost.
To have housing system that will be like this in
Nigeria by the year 2020, housing delivery should be sustainable. At best,
adequate housing should contribute to the attainment of physical and moral
health of the nation and stimulates the social stability, the work efficiency
and the development of the individual. As a unit of the environment, housing
has a profound influence in the health, efficiency, social behavior
satisfaction, productivity and general welfare of the individual and
community it reaffirm the country social and economic value of a society as
it appears the best physical and historical evidence of civilization of a
country and a reliable measured of introduction of economic development where
housing delivery in this context give priority to the disadvantage groups
where in it responsibility, would have emerge in the process of housing
choice and give them a say in decisions that affect their housing need and
life.
Report on
united nation habitat summit in Istanbul indicate that if the national
housing go are to be meet, government should encourage, orientate and if
necessary, supervise the housing sector. In the past ten months the panel on
the vision 202020 committee has worked relentlessly in the past, present, and
future strategy to jump start economic transformation of the country. In the
case of Nigeria there include development action, activities, programmes
project and amenities undertaking to achieve economic growth and boost the
GDP and other feature to put Nigeria among twenty most industrialized nation
by the year 2020. report indicate that one of the setback working against
achieving one of the vision 202020 cardinal objective that is housing
delivery remains a misplace priority in housing development. Accordingly,
lack of infrastructure and services with respect to water, sanitation surface
water drainage, and solid waste and energy sources as lead to cumulative
environmental degradation especially in the low cost housing neighborhood
over several decade. Besides the lost in environmental quality for Nigeria,
the impact on the health household and communities constitute a major
concern. All keys stakeholders in low income housing delivery in national,
state and local developers face major financial constraint in meeting their
responsibilities. These has been the key factor contributing to the process
of decision making drain by initial lost in consideration especially to fit
to subsidy provision while ignoring the long term cost and life circle saving
alternative solution. The policy therefore recognizes the need for
alternative financial mechanism which provides more flexibility in terms of
choices open to stake holders in housing delivery, habitation and
transformation but failed to respond to the large housing challenges.
The practice is also irresponsible to emerging needs
such as cultural values of house holds and communities although, the housing tragedy
is not responsive to demand, and where the demand should not be narrowing the
found to the way which focus on
numbers which eventually failed to set to other specific goals or objectives
which housing delivery should facilitate. Expectedly, the point of emphasis
for private or public partnership in housing delivery should involve those
factors that constrain the effective performance of the partnership of the
two sectors. The factors relate to land, housing, finance building material
construction industry and the road of various types of government. in
reality, government should not dominate the housing delivery process if it
must succeed in sustainable housing delivery rather it should facilitate it
simply by assisting the actors involve in housing delivery to take decision
to build and improve housing. Also, small housing loan should be extended to
the disadvantage group in both rural and urban areas to assist them in
constructing their dwelling unit. Most of the urban settlement lives without
former land tenure, so land tenure has to be regularize to create sufficient
security of tenure to make the investment in housing worthwhile these, in no
time saves the attainment of vision 202020 in housing delivery to the
populace.
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