Factors of Spontaneous physical housing changes in Southwest Nigeria.

Abstract

The study examined the factors responsible for spontaneous physical housing changes among the privately owned housing in southwest Nigeria. The research employed both clustering and systematic random sampling techniques to select three urban centres from a total of twenty-one urban centres in the three sub-zones. The emerged urban centres were those with the highest population and serve as the administrative headquarters of their political entities. The three selected urban centres are Ibadan, Abeokuta and Akure. Principal Component Analysis extracted seven components from the 27 spontaneous physical housing variables employed. The seven-component solutions accounts for a total of 81.6% of the variation. The Component 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 account for 34.9%, 14.8%, 10.0%, 8.4%, 5.3%, 4.3% and 4.0% of the variance respectively. The study discovered that ineffective housing administration; residents’ level of awareness to the changes in the neighbourhood; support for socioeconomic enterprise; behaviour and attitude of the residents; inconvenience; population growth and change due to science and technology development over time are responsible for spontaneous physical housing changes in the southwest Nigeria. The research suggested that a Supplementary Planning and Development Document, SPDD, housing transformation policy based on the identified factors be put in place to regulate spontaneous physical housing alterations activities in order to create a balance between the benefits and the inconveniences of housing modifications in the region.