This book has catalogued 41- thought provoking pointers on issues of affordable housing in Nigeria.
“Affordable” highlights the necessity in a shift in perspective on the subject matter by thinking critically and differently about housing in order to solve the nation’s housing.
The book emphasizes the fact that government has a key role to play towards ensuring affordable housing, the community and individuals have a major role by ensuring that houses remain affordable by resisting increment in service charges and change of use.
There are five essential participants in delivering affordable housing – the Government, the Private Sector, Professionals, the Community and the Individual. Each party, like the lines of a pentagon, are distinct yet linked. They have the direct responsibility for affordable housing to be delivered and to be sustainable.