AN EVALUATION OF CHALLENGES OF CITY GROWTH AND HOUSING SUSTAINABILITY IN LAFIA URBAN AREA

This project research work is a conceptualization work that comes to success as result of the challenges facing our city is growing and the unhealthy living condition for our housing these days. The research was include to fine the cause of the challenges of the city, cause of city growth and possibility of making housing sustainable for the future, and to also recommend possible means of doing away with those challenges for improving standard of housing sustainability. Lafia Was picked as study area: the study approach was the survey opinion type. Questionnaire was structured and 80 housing developers/housing investors were selected for the questionnaires. Tabularize form of data adopted while statically means the used for analysis which form the basis of its interpretation and desertion the principal finding of the study work is lack of control measure lack of birthrate control and lack of financial attention by the government within the study area the study also made recommendation for the government to operate a system where all registered professional estate surveyors and valuers would be charge with the responsibility of achieving sustainable land use consumption production when exercising their professional duties and the need to integrate the knowledge of their department in the promote and bring about effectiveness of the outcome to achieve towards land use development vis-à-vis united nations sustainable development goals.