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Item Community participation in slum upgrading: A key to attainment of inclusive city(Community Participation Research Group (COPAREG), Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, 2018) Popoola Naomi Ijadunola; Ojetunde Ismail; Kemiki Olurotimi Adebowale; Ayoola Adeyosoye BabatundeUrban population explosions in the developing world have been attributed to proliferation and formation of slum particularly as a result of disproportionate provision of basic infrastructure. Infrastructure provision and maintenance has remained one of the major challenges facing the cities, most especially the slum settlements in the developing countries of the world. Inadequate financial resources in tackling many urban challenges have led to partial withdrawal of government from providing and maintaining basic neighbourhood infrastructure in the cities. It is therefore very evident that inclusive city cannot be achieved without effective community participation. It is in view of this that this study examined challenges facing slum settlements, benefits and shortcomings of residents’ participation in upgrading projects and framework for sustainable community participation upgrading project. The study concluded that the meagre community resources of slum dwellers in the face of economic recession are not sufficient to meet the development need of the slum, especially in the area of infrastructure refurbishment. The study, amongst others, recommended adoption of community-driven development approaches in upgrading projects in poor urban communities and adequate resource allocation to projects as effective tools for achieving social inclusion and attainment of desired inclusive city.Item Urbanization and Peri-Urban Development in Minna, Nigeria(School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, 2017) Popoola Naomi Ijadunola; Ojetunde Ismail; Kemiki Olurotimi Adebowale; Ayoola Adeyosoye BabatundeItem An Assessment of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Residential Property Values in Minna(Joint International Conference Editorial Committee, 2016) Ayoola Adeyosoye Babatunde; Ojetunde Ismail; Kemiki Olurotimi Adebowale; Popoola NaomiThis study provides evidence on the value capitalization effect of public infrastructure in Minna. It employs rental transactions and datasets constructed from various secondary sources to provide information on geometric and spatial distribution of 4 groups of public infrastructure. Due to aggregation bias in these data sets, we utilize the quartile procedure to construct aggregate indices which capture the effect of the different infrastructure stock component but not infrastructure quality. The quartiles were used to compute location quotients for 12 a priori neighbourhoods, hence providing the basis for grouping and classifying neighbourhoods into low and high infrastructure neighbourhoods. A tenable statistical justification for this neighbourhood split by infrastructure is the Hodges-Lehman point estimate of shift (Δ) at 95.89 confidence level which is (−3.234,−11.072,−0.339) which revealed that the two classified neighbourhoods (low and high) are different. Findings revealed that geometric and spatial distribution of infrastructure is reasonably uneven across the study area. In addition, marked variability exists in quality of infrastructure between low and high-infrastructure neighbourhoods based on respondents‘ perceptual rating. The conjecture that high-infrastructure neighbourhoods have higher residential property values in contrast with that associated with low-infrastructure neighbourhoods was also found to be plausible. The capitalization effect of public infrastructure is evident in a falling market: high-infrastructure neighbourhoods significantly outperformed low-infrastructure neighbourhoods by N 14470, while in period of soaring property value, high-infrastructure neighbourhoods command N 57305.60 more than the low-infrastructure neighbourhoods. These findings have substantial implications for optimal location of public infrastructure and its capitalization into urban residential property value. To maximize this capitalization effect, policy makers and planners must efficiently allocate public infrastructure across space.Item Assessment of Households’ Satisfaction with Neighbourhood Facilities in Selected Residential Locations of Minna Urban(School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, 2016) Ayoola Adeyosoye Babatunde; Kemiki Olurotimi Adebowale; Adeniran Ayoade Adeleye; Abdulkareem SekinatOne of the challenges facing the cities of the world particularly in developing economies is unsustainable nature of housing. And as neighbourhood remains the utmost fundamental environmental unit for dweller’s social platform influencing his or her quality of life, it should be ascribed serious attention. This study examined the effects of seven neighbourhood facilities on households’ satisfaction across six residential neighbourhoods in Minna. Systematic random sampling technique was used to administer questionnaires to the household heads in the study area. Spearman’s rank correlation and multiple regression were statistical tools employed using SPSS Version 16.0 Statistical package. The study revealed a positive relationship between level of households’ satisfaction and neighbourhood facilities considered in F-layout and Bosso Estate with correlation coefficients of 0.689 and 0.529 respectively; positive relationship in Bosso Town, Tunga Lowcost and GRA with correlation coefficients of 0.465, 0.375 and 0.360 respectively; and negative relationship between the variables in Minna Central (-0.033 correlation coefficient). The correlation results confirms the regression analysis which reveals significant relationship (p values < 0.01) between households’ satisfaction and neighbourhood facilities in F-layout (R2=0.501), Bosso Estate (R2=0.230), Bosso Town (R2=0.205), Tunga Lowcost (R2=0.180) and GRA (R2=0.124)) and reverse relationship (p value > 0.01) in Minna Central (R2=0.000). The study recommends that neighbourhood facilities should be augumented with other public facilities and households or community residents should be involved in infrastructure input decisions that affect their neighbourhoods. This will improve residential neighbourhood satisfaction by the residents and also enhance property values.Item Determining Residential Location Choice along the Coastline in Victoria Island, Nigeria Using a Factor Analytical Approach(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-06-12) Ayoola Adeyosoye Babatunde; Oyetunji Abiodun Kolawole; Olukolajo Michael Ayodele; Ullah Safi; Kemiki Olurotimi AdebowaleThis paper evaluates how households consider environmental attributes alongside other housing attributes in their residential location decisions along the coastline in Victoria Island, Nigeria. The data were obtained from tenants’ revealed preference surveys where 204 respondents rated 15 identified and most common key factors in the order by which they influence their residential location choices. The factor analytical approach was then applied to understand how these factors influence such decisions. Thus, this study also gives bearing to the factors considered in making policy and/or investment decisions around residential location choice (RLC). The results revealed the presence of four key components with a total variance of 70.76%. Among the components, neighbourhood, critical dwelling cum socio-economic attributes are found to have a significant influence in explaining 39.78% of the variation in the factors influencing the study area’s selection as the residential location choice (RLC) for households. The findings have implications for households’ residential location choices. For residential locations to be equally attractive to tenants, policymakers and urban planners should pay attention to addressing the menace of the neighbourhoods including crime and traffic congestion. Moreover, property owners should respond to tenants’ needs by paying attention to the provision of utility facilities such as portable water and an appropriate mix of toilet/bathrooms to available bedrooms.Item Factors Influencing Tenants’ Choice of Location of Residence in Bosso Local Municipality, Minna, Nigeria(Official refereed Journal of the African Real Estate Society, 2019) Oladapo Rashidat Adejoke; Ojo Babajide; Ayoola Adeyosoye Babatunde; Kemiki Olurotimi AdebowaleResidential location choice (RLC) is key to the pattern of urban development in any city. This paper investigates factors influencing the choice of residential location by tenants in Bosso Local Government Area (LGA), Minna. The objective of the paper is to establish the roles played by a variety of housing attributes, and thus the design is an analytical survey. Data was collected from 277 structured questionnaires completed by household heads who are tenants in Bosso LGA neighbourhoods. This data was further investigated through factor analysis to reduce the variety of housing variables to a smaller set of influential components. The results reveal that the principal component in the determination of residential location of tenants is dwelling attributes comprising of the number of bathrooms, number of toilets and number of bedrooms. In addition, the second principal component, named accessibility attributes, plays a modest role with proximity to a secondary school and/or primary school loading very high. The study recommends that property owners should respond to the desires of tenants by paying attention to the provision of the right ratio of bathrooms and toilets to the number of bedrooms. Also, urban planners and policymakers should efficiently allocate educational properties like secondary and primary schools across all the neighbourhoods in the study area. With these recommendations, it is hoped that residential locations across Bosso LGA will be equally attractive to tenants.Item Critical Factors Contributing to Rent Arrears in Residential Properties in Minna, Nigeria(European University of Lefke, Cyprus, 2018) Kemiki Olurotimi Adebowale; Ayoola Adeyosoye Babatunde; Ojetunde Ismail; Ogunbajo Rukayat Adeola; Kuma Shien StephenOptimum return appears to be a tangible motive of investors of real estate investments. This motive over the years has been bedevilled by rent defaults by renters of properties in the property sector. This situation, to Property Managers and their Principals is worrisome. It is on this basis that this study attempts to assess the factors influencing rent arrears in Minna residential property market. The study employs data on various aggregate factors such as management subsystem, economic factors, tenancy arrangement, dwelling unit features and external household attributes influencing rent payments. Cluster random sampling was used to administer questionnaire to renters of residential properties in Minna while simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to administer questionnaires to property managers. Kendall Coefficient of Concordance and Chi-Square were statistical tools used. The result revealed that W = 0.601 which indicated a statistical evidence of a fair association in the ranking of the factors responsible for rent in arrears, while the average rank correlation of factors between all possible pairs of the towns rs = 0.521 indicating a weak agreement to the identified factors. There was evidence of variation among the factors responsible for rent arrears across the areas and the study also found there is no relationship between income level of renters and type of residential accommodation occupied. The implication of the study is that renters develop practical habit that discipline their finances and prioritize the scale of preference to live below their income level.