ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC HOUSING RENOVATION ON THE RESIDENTS IN OKE-ILA HOUSING ESTATE, ADO-EKITI, EKIT

Assessment of Public Housing Renovation on the Residents in Oke-Ila Housing Estate, Ado-Ekiti, Ekit State. the objectives of the study are to examine the major characteristics of the housing provided in the study area, to investigate the socio-economic characteristics of the residents in the selected housing estate, to evaluate the factors influencing housing renovation in the study area, to examine the consequences of housing renovation on the life of the households in the study area and to look into the interval at which the housing estate are being renovated in the study area. Primary source of data collection (questionnaire) was used to obtain the needed data from the respondents. Altogether there are twelve (12) streets in the federal housing estate oke-ila of which there are total numbers of (238) two hundred and thirty eight government housing units through planning approval. The sampling technique that was adopted was the Total population sampling technique which is a type of purposive sampling technique that involves examining the entire housing. Descriptive statistical tools such as ratios, percentages, tables and frequency counts were used to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of respondents. Research has proved that all efforts, strategies, programmes and policies of the government in Nigeria to tackle the menace of housing problems have ended up in monumental failure. The study hereby concluded that housing renovation is a common spontaneous phenomenon in the public housing estates in the study area where over 70% of the dwellers engaged in the practice. It is hereby recommended that there must be a very active public private participation PPP on planning of any housing program at any level of operation, so as to understand the peoples need and thereby planning according to what people who can probably be dwellerof the housing Estate need and also satisfy their choice of housing