APPRAISAL OF SLUM CONDITION IN MAHIN, ILAJE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA.

Abstract

Slums are one of the effects of migration and the most important reason for living in the slums is poor access to better living spaces. In other words, people move into the slums due more to obstacles in their original dwelling places than to the attraction of the target area. Slum condition is a common phenomenon in Mahin. This is characteristically typified in their housing condition and infrastructural facilities. Thus the aim of this study is to appraise slum condition in Mahin, Ilaje Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria. With respect to field survey conducted for this research, Three hundred and thirty-three (333) questionnaires were administered on households and retrieved. Stratified and systematic random sampling techniques were adopted for this study. Stratified sampling technique was used to group the study area into strata while systematic random sampling technique was used to extrapolate data from each stratum. Findings from this study revealed that people in this locale were people of low per capita base living below poverty line. It was also discovered that housing condition in terms of roofs, walls and so on were extremely poor and the consequences of such conditions are a negative impact on the environment as well as on human health and comfort. Likewise, the problem of waste collection and environmental-health related diseases was a major challenge in the study area. In conclusion, the study recommends aggressive enlightenment programme on the need to redeem this locale from slum environment to healthy, functional and aesthetic environment. The presence of agencies of government responsible for urban and rural development should be on the increase through physical planning instruments to address, undress and redress the challenges of slum condition in this area. Finally, provision of rural infrastructure to facelift this environment from its current state of slum condition should be encouraged and sustained by government and the governed in the form of public private partnership (PPP).