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A framework for the sustainable management of social (public) housing estates in Nigeria : a pilot study

Ihuah, PW; Eaton, D

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Authors

PW Ihuah

D Eaton



Abstract

Stakeholders’ involvement; effective building maintenance; and appropriate estate
management practices are essential for social (public) housing estates to be sustainable.
Therefore, it is asserted that if these concepts are properly aligned, the issues related to
housing management and lack of supply of social (public) housing estates in the Niger
Delta region of Nigeria would be reduced. Sustainable management of social housing
estates could provide comfortable, cheap to maintain, good quality homes that
contribute over their whole service life-cycle to the social, economic and environmental
wellbeing of a neighbourhood. The accessibility of appropriate housing is a measure
that defines the echelon of a country’s development. However, evidence such as the
extent of unoccupied, unfinished, vandalized, and abandoned social housing estates in
the Niger Delta indicates that the availability and management of decent social housing
estates is lacking because the post-construction management practice is not as good as it
should be. This paper sets out the context for research in this topic area and reports the
results from an exploratory pilot study that involved a series of semi-structured
interviews (15 Nr) with expert practitioners and other supply side stakeholders in the
management of social (public) housing estates in the Niger Delta. The interviews
explored current practice in relation to: sustainability; stakeholder involvement; housing
maintenance; and housing management. The findings indicated that there was a need for
a framework for the management of social housing estates in a more sustainable manner
to be developed. The results also showed that such a framework needed to adopt the
principles of sustainability in combination with effective building maintenance and
good estate management practices. It is recommended that further work is undertaken
in this area to further refine this framework to ensure its applicability to practice in
other emergent developing countries.

Citation

Ihuah, P., & Eaton, D. A framework for the sustainable management of social (public) housing estates in Nigeria : a pilot study. Presented at RICS COBRA 2013 The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, New Delhi, India

Presentation Conference Type Other
Conference Name RICS COBRA 2013 The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Conference Location New Delhi, India
End Date Sep 12, 2013
Publication Date Sep 12, 2013
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2014
Publicly Available Date Apr 5, 2016
Book Title Proceedings of RICS COBRA 2013 : the Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
ISBN 9781783210305
Publisher URL http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/research/conference-papers
Related Public URLs https://www.rics.org/uk/
Additional Information Event Type : Conference

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