Measuring Housing Affordability Through Residual Income Approach as a Parameter in Some Selected Houses Developed Within FCT, Abuja

Abdulrahman Siyaka Arudi; Manga Mustapha Kyari; Abdulkadir Aliyu

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Measuring Housing Affordability Through Residual Income Approach as a Parameter in Some Selected Houses Developed Within FCT, Abuja

Abdulrahman Siyaka Arudi, Manga Mustapha Kyari, Abdulkadir Aliyu

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This study aims to measure the affordability of houses provided by the organised housing developers in the FCT, Abuja, to know if it is affordable for low-income earners by taking into consideration certain variables that may have an effect on the affordability, which range from "household income, household expenditure, occupation, educational qualification, number of households with children, number of household heads working, and monthly house installment. The study uses quantitative research approaches. The study employed both primary and secondary data with the aid of questionnaires. A total of 330 low-income earners were selected in the FCT based on the proportion of the estimated household population using a systematic sampling technique. The information gathered was analysed using descriptive statistics, frequencies, percentages, and binary logistic regression analysis. The findings revealed that 60.6% of the respondents among the low income earners earned somewhere between the range of ₦61,000 and ₦ 90,000. The finding of the level of affordability revealed that only 30.4% of the sampled respondents could afford the housing provided, compared to 69.6% who were not capable of affording it. The result revealed that among all the variables considered, the only educational qualification variable that has no effect on affordability among the low income earners in the FCT, Abuja. Therefore, the analysis has shown the loopholes in the current housing policy where the major target is to provide houses that are more affordable for every class of citizen, with a focus on low-income earners. In view of the findings and conclusions of this study, the following recommendations were made: The government needs a total overhaul of the current housing policy in order to create an enabling environment where the cost of housing can be reduced and income generation can be equally increased, so that low-income earners can conveniently afford the houses provided within the FCT, Abuja and other parts of the country at large.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijema.20221003.14
Page(s)	79-84
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Affordability, Housing, Residual Income, Development

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Abdulrahman Siyaka Arudi, Manga Mustapha Kyari, Abdulkadir Aliyu. Measuring Housing Affordability Through Residual Income Approach as a Parameter in Some Selected Houses Developed Within FCT, Abuja. Int J Environ Monit Anal. 2022;10(3):79-84. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20221003.14

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Abdulrahman Siyaka Arudi

Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Environmental, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria
Manga Mustapha Kyari

School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, London, United Kingdom
Abdulkadir Aliyu

Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Environmental, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria

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Abdulrahman Siyaka Arudi, Manga Mustapha Kyari, Abdulkadir Aliyu. Measuring Housing Affordability Through Residual Income Approach as a Parameter in Some Selected Houses Developed Within FCT, Abuja. Int J Environ Monit Anal. 2022;10(3):79-84. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20221003.14

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