Study of Residents' satisfaction with housing Conditions in Urban Centres of Southwest Nigeria.

Abstract

Housing satisfaction is the overall reaction to how housing adequacy meets the urban residents’ expectations. Many studies on housing satisfaction related issues were directed at public housing. Enough attentions have not been given to residents’ satisfaction with privately owned housing at regional scale despite its diversity and contributions to urban housing provisions in Nigeria. The study examines the residents’ satisfaction, housing parameters across the urban centres of southwest Nigeria. Three urban centres were selected based on the dialectical composition of the zone as found in the literature. Principal Component Analysis extracted three components from the 38 satisfaction, housing variables used. Component 1, 2 and 3 account for 29%, 23% and 8% respectively. Descriminant analysis was conducted on these variables and the result shows three distinct regions of slightly different housing …