Assessing government plan and residents’ support for agropolitan housing development in the Greater Port Harcourt city, River State, Nigeria
1 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
2 Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 12(01), 097–107
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2021.12.1.0487
Publication history:
Received on 23 August 2021; revised on 27 September 2021; accepted on 29 September 2021
Abstract:
This paper examined, why the Rivers State Government of Nigeria engaged in the Greater Port Harcourt city project as well as individual communities’ residents’ attitudes in support or against government demand of communities’ land for agropolitan residential housing development in the GPH city. Survey questionnaire retrieved from 258 heads of households in 8 selected communities of the Greater Port Harcourt city and key informants’ responses were the methods used. The result shows that Greater Port Harcourt City was born to contain and curtail the spill over population, provide good and quality infrastructure and services, upgrade informal settlements and create sustainable residential developments. Respondents’ attitude towards land acquisition for self-sustainable agropolitan residential housing development was positive and supportive with modal first to three mention of “More persons will own better homes (27.3%), it will enable me own my personal house (18.2%) and it will solve the housing problem in the area (16.3%) respectively’.
Keywords:
Sustainable Development; Agropolitan; Sustainable Housing; Greater Port Harcourt; Residents’ Support
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