Effective sites and services scheme as a means of solving low-income housing need in Nigerian cities

 

Bello Nurudeen Akinsola¹*, Oladokun Timothy Tunde² and Adegunle Tomisi Olusegun¹

 

Review Article | Published September 2014

Journal of Economics and International Business Management, Vol. 2(3), pp. 50-58

 

¹Department of Estate Management and Valuation, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
²Department of Estate Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

 

*Corresponding author. E-mail: bello4all007@yahoo.com. Tel: 234-8033183613.

 

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The importance of infrastructure and services in achieving efficient and effective functioning of cities and towns as well as promoting national economic development have been well emphasized by the political declaration issued at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. It has also been ascertained by empirical studies that the basis for sustainable urban development is the existence of functional and efficient sites with infrastructure and services. This work therefore examines the effectiveness of sites and services schemes in Nigerian situation and compares it with what obtained in the other selected countries of the world. This is with the aim of deriving lessons that will be of great benefit to Nigeria most especially to solve the housing need problem of poor majority living in Nigerian cities.

 

Keywords: Sites and services, Nigerian cities, sustainable development, low-income housing.