AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCESSIBILITY OF HOUSING AND FACILITIES IN THE URBAN-RURAL FRINGES OF NASARAWA

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCESSIBILITY OF HOUSING AND FACILITIES IN THE URBAN-RURAL FRINGES OF NASARAWA

(A case study of Nasarawa Town)

ABSTRACT

Housing in the developing world and indeed the entire world, must be seen as a political and socio-economic problem rather than a technical one. So must be without exception, within the Nigeria context. It is an obvious fact that all sectors of the society have not been fully taken care of our urban housing policies and programme. However, this project is aimed at examining the assessment of the accessibility of housing and facilities in the urban/rural fringes of Nasarawa.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0   INTRODUCTION

In developing countries a substantial and growth proportion lives or around metropolitan area and megacities, including the zone termed the “Urban fringe” where their livelihood depend to some extent on resources such as land for food, water and fuel, zones are often overexploited. Although heterogeneous in its social composition, the urban fringe constitutes the habit of a diversity of populations, including lower income group who are particularly, vulnerable to negative externalities of both rural and urban systems. These include, risk to health, life and physical hazards related to the occupation of unsuitable sites, lack of access to clean water and basic sanitation and poor housing conditions, environmental changes also impinge upon the livelihood strategies of these communities by decreasing or increasing their access to different types of capital (Umeh 2010)

Nigeria has been experiencing a great transition from rural to Urban oriented economy, which has been accompanied by the increasing mobility of production factors such as capital, labour, technology and information to the Urban fringe near these cities such as Nasarawa, Lagos, Kano, Benin, Aba, Kaduna etc. consequently to the wide spread beliefs that Urban fringes are fashionable area in urban literature especially in developed countries (Dupont 2005). The UN-Habitat report (2005) has indicated that, in the year 2025, 16% of the 5 billion world population will be urban and most mega-cities will stand in what we call the “south cluster”. About 55% of these development will occur at the urban hinterland widely referred to as pen-urban, suburbs, urban fringe, city edge, metropolitan shadow amongst other. Because of proximity to the city, the zone experiences much of urbanization process and serves as buffer for future urban development.

There are forces that shape the urban fringe landscape. One prominent features in Nigeria, particularly Nasarawa is the informal sector activities and its attendant problems on urban fringe.

1.1   SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The significant role played by the housing in the life of an individual, a community or a nation brings to time the importance of management of such properties management has a very significant place in property investment hence there is a need for adequate provision to take care of management became a country that goes on building but does not effectively manage what it has built is quite simple making history and at the same time destroying it immediately. Thus, the research work intends to examine the accessibility culture of most owner of residential property in Nasarawa town which is one of the growing town in Nasarawa state.

1.2   PROBLEM STATEMENT

The urban fringe is often defined as a remote zone at the interface between urban and rural landscape. It is frequently ignored as a specific area within the study of urban housing. Recently, there has  been an extra-ordinary revival of interest in urban fringe issues as a result of the exceptional evolution in urban  growth. However, in spite of multitude of generalizations in urban theories, little is known on the housing quality of this area.

This research therefore is to examine the relationship between housing quality, information sectors and urban fringes. Social, economic and cultural characteristics as well as environmental issues associated with people living in this area to be examined so as to impact knowledge that can transform these areas. These because, it has been observed that little is known about the people living in the urban fringes of Nasarawa.

This study identify the urban fringe with a view to providing explanations on the housing quality of residential housing in urban fringe slum measured by environmental conditions in the town of Nasarawa- Nigeria.

This study seeks to fill the gap on the emerging socio-spatial by advances knowledge on the socio-economic of the residents of the urban fringe in developing countries using Nasarawa town as a case study.

1.3   AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of this project is to examine the factors militating against effective housing quality in the urban fringes of Nasarawa town. To achieve this aim, the following objective shall be perused.

1. To identify the urban fringes in Nasarawa.
2. To examine the socio-economic characteristics of residents in Nasarawa town.
3. To examine the physical characteristics of residential in Nasarawa town.  
4. To examine the solution to the identify problems.

1.4   METHODOLOGY

In order to reach the above mentioned objectives, the study will include a study intended to consolidate secondary data. The secondary data will include available land use maps of Nasarawa from previous publications and ministry of land to demarcate fringe areas of Nasarawa. The National Population Commission, NPC census figure will be used fo[r projecting population of the area and determination of sample size, official documents case studies of successful intervention and other relevant secondary literature.

In addition, this assessment will be based on existing information from reports, such as the most recent UN-HABITAT global report on human settlement and state of the world cities reports. The analysis draws on comparative evaluations on the topic carried out by major international organization such as UN-HABITAT.

Primary data relating to housing quality were obtained by means of structured questionnaires administered on a systematic sample size of 500 household heads in Doma Road at Lafia from a sampling frame of 5000 housing units. The primary data include five hundred household questionnaires; this will be used to elicit information on the socio-economic characteristics of respondents of the urban fringe, physical and neighbourhoods characteristics and housing quality in the selected local government metropolitan region in Nasarawa town.

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