Strategies for Recuperating the Competence of Informal Land Delivery Channels

Abstract

There is a mounting accord in study that informal land has contributed the bigger part of urban land for housing stipulation. The informal land system as flexible as they appear have a process via which transactions are carried out. These processes through which household owners access land for housing are not accidental but are structured and regulated by some form of social ordering. Notwithstanding, despite their major contributions to providing residential housing, several shortcomings such as tenure insecurity, uncoordinated development etc, are some of the resultant outcomes of the system. This paper therefore, with the aid of data obtained through primary and secondary sources which were analyzed, and presented in matrixes explains the strategies that are required to improving the workings of informal land institutions in Karu the gate city as a reference to other Nigeria cities. 310 questionnaires were distributed amongst household owners using Likert scale. This paper identified legal recognition of the informal land delivery sector, introduction of local land managers at district levels, guided development, transparency and accountability and assessment. Despite some shortcoming associated with informal land delivery, this paper has established that with the strategies proposed such challenges can be checkmated. However, the paper concludes that state should not be seen as the sole umpire in charge of controlling urban land markets but alternative institutions, in this case, formal and informal be allowed manage and regulate urban land market to be supported by law