HOUSING LOW-INCOME CIVIL SERVANTS IN AN EMERGENT STATE CAPITAL: The Case Study of Ado-Ekiti

Abstract

This research is a study of the housing situation of low-income civil servants in Ado - Ekiti, the capital city of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The aim of the study is to identify strategies and the functional approach for adequately housing these workers through public sector intervention. The research examined a number of key features of the urban housing issues (including urbanization, culture, public infrastructure and services, housing finance and management, housing policy) which impinge on the provision of housing for low-income earners. As an investigative research, its data were obtained from primary and secondary sources. The primary data were sourced through the survey of public housing schemes in Ado Ekiti, and the private sector housing occupied by the low-income civil servants. It also involved the study of government activities in housing in Ado - Ekiti, the study area. Secondary data were obtained from the University Library, the National Library at Akure, as well as numerous other private and governmental sources. The data obtained were subjected to ciritical analysis in three tiers, namely; the uni-variate analysis, bi-variate analysis (chi-square test of independence and correlation), and multi-variate analysis. These enabled the development of statistical models pivotal for the realisation of the thesis goal of identifying regenerative strategies for housing the low-income civil servants.