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Residents’ perception of housing quality in selected informal settlement in a part of Southwestern Nigeria

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Limited information exists about the deplorable housing quality in urban local government areas in Nigeria and many developing countries. Hence, the specific objectives of this study were to examine the physical factors influencing the housing quality and housing/environmental condition—residents’ socio-economic characteristics relationship in a typical urban local government area in Nigeria. The study obtained records on the number of buildings, demographic and socio-economic of residents, housing, and environmental conditions, among others, using a set of questionnaires that was administered to 195 residents, following a multi-stage sampling procedure. Results showed that houses in the study area, Somolu local government area in southwestern Nigeria, were characterised by opened, poor-conditioned drainage system (Weighted index, WI = 2.62, mean deviation, MD = − 0.36), 82.1% houses lacking water supply source within them, inadequate ventilation (WI = 4.13, MD = − 0.06) and lighting (WI = 4.12, MD = − 0.07). Household heads are generally male (59.5%), educated (90.3%), and traders and artisans (53.8%), whose monthly income was at least 30,000 Naira (minimum wage in Nigeria) with more than five household size. Environmental/housing conditions—socio-economic characteristics showed ambiguous but significant patterns (P ≤ 0.05). The study concluded that housing quality in the study area was largely determined by differences in residents’ socio-economic status.

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Abbreviations

VG:

Very good

G:

Good

F:

Fair

B:

Bad

VB:

Very bad

VC:

Very close

C:

Close

VF:

Very far

F:

Far

VA:

Very adequate

FA:

Fairly adequate

A:

Adequate

I:

Inadequate

VI:

Very inadequate

∑WV:

Sum of the weighted value

WI:

Weighted Index

MD:

Mean deviation

\(\overline{WI }\) :

Average Weighted Index

Eq:

Equation

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  1. Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria

    Wakeel Olorunwa Salau

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

    Richard Unuigboje

  3. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

    Oluwatomisin Olajide

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OO contributed to the study conception and design, RU participated in the drafting and writing of the methods section while SWO collected, analyzed and interpreted the data. Also, all authors have read and approved the manuscript.

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Salau, W.O., Unuigboje, R. & Olajide, O. Residents’ perception of housing quality in selected informal settlement in a part of Southwestern Nigeria. SN Soc Sci 3, 136 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00731-6

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