ACCESSING THE INFLUENCE OF RENTAL DEFAULT ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT IN UYO URBAN

This study considers housing policy in Nigeria as a tool for national development. Over the years, it has been witnessed that there has been ineffectiveness in the provision of mass housing in Uyo state; this difficulty is seen particularly in the standard of living of the citizens. Questionnaires were developed and distributed to the sampled population in the state. The results from tested hypothesis shows that the coefficient (0.435) is statistically significant because its sig-value of 0.01 is less than 0.05. With the t-statistics value above (t-value = 3.460 and a p-value of 0.000). The implication of this result is that there are barriers to effective provision of mass housing for low income group in Uyo state, it is as a result of the following identified factors; poor implementation management, poor project location, inadequate project inspection, injustice and corruption in distribution and allocation, lack of an effective strategy evaluation system and a compromised stakeholder consultative system are the identified limiting factors against a successful mass housing implementation system. The effect of these factors on effective implementation success has, therefore, left the state and Nigeria at large in the category of the least developed countries of the world. The study recommends that in order to achieve this, there is the necessity to enhance the workability of the policy. Consequently, the Nigerian housing policy should be reviewed periodically in order to make it functional and acceptable. Apart from this, in order to attain effective housing supply, there should be access to land, finance and building materials. Also, the implementation of housing policy should take cognizance of low income earners. Consequently, there should be provision of low cost houses for low income families.