1 Department of Architecture, Federal University of Oye -Ekiti, Oye- Ekiti Nigeria.
2 Department of Architecture, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti, Nigeria.
3 Department of Architecture, University of Nigeria Nsuka, Nigeria.
4 Department of Economics, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 18(02), 969-978
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.18.2.0941
Received on 11 April 2023; revised on 19 May 2023; accepted on 22 May 2023
The study focused on the connection between the standard of housing and household income in Nigeria's Ado-Ekiti. The population of Ado-Ekiti is expanding and includes a wide range of socioeconomic categories. The study adopted a primary method of data collection, respondents who are landlords or the oldest tenants were selected randomly to give answers to 1500 structural questionnaires distributed in the study area, and a total of 1311 responses were obtained. The study was categorized into three zones: Urban Core, Transitional and Peri-phery. The variables and data were captured with statistical tables. The study found out that 62% of respondents in the Urban Core earn less than the minimum wage as against 9.05 in the Peri-phery. Also, in the Core Area, 37.3%, 40.0%, 34.6%, 32.2%, 32.9% and 47.5% of roof, windows, doors, walls, floors and ceilings respectively were bad. The hypothesis formulated is that there is no significant relationship between housing quality and income level. Using Pearson Product Correlation shows that r-value (0.530) is higher than the r-tabulated r-value (0.195), this indicates that there is a strong correlation between the quality of housing and residents' income levels. The study concluded that income level and fund availability will always affect the realization of good quality housing, the study recommended that strong government intervention in housing the urban poor must be improved; development agencies and private developers should go into funding building maintenance most especially at the urban core.
Quality; Housing; Income; Urbanizing; City; Relationship
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Foluso C. Awe, Albert B. Adeboye, Muyiwa L. Akinluyi, Francis O. Okeke, Sunday U. Yakubu and Folahan D. Awe. Assessment of the relationship between housing quality and income in urbanizing city of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 18(2), 969-978. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.18.2.0941