 Assessment of Housing Quality in Ede, NigeriaAdewale Yoade (), Olabisi Adeyemi () and Olawunmi Yoade () Asian Themes in Social Sciences Research, 2018, vol. 1, issue 2, 76-83 Abstract: This study examined the housing quality in Ede, Nigeria and the impacts of urbanization on environmental degeneration of urban built environment. A total of 388 housing units, consisting of 236, 78 and 74 units were drawn for sampling from the high, medium and low density areas of the study area, respectively. The secondary data involved available census data, official documents and other relevant secondary data were obtained from existing literature, on books and journals. The study established that majority (62.6%) of the respondents are female while 37.3% of the respondents are male in the study area. Findings established that 63.9% and 55.1% have no educational qualification and primary education in high and medium density areas respectively while in contrast majority (91.1%) in low density area have tertiary education in the study area. Findings also revealed that household-size has a significant influence on the overall housing quality in the study area. The study concluded that it is imperative to check and prevent further decay for good living and working environment. Keywords: Urbanization; Environment; Housing quality; Infrastructural facilities and amenities (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kpr:atissr:v:1:y:2018:i:2:p:76-83:id:38 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Asian Themes in Social Sciences Research from Knowledge Press |
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