Tenants’ Satisfaction and Housing Conditions in the Traditional Wards of Ilorin, Nigeria.
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2014
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Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin
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The study examined tenants' satisfaction and housing conditions in traditional florin Wards. The study objectives were to identify tenants' satisfaction and housing types and factors influencing satisfaction of occupants and housing conditions in the traditional wards of [Iorin. Both primary and secondary sources of data were entployed to obtain first hand information from the respondents. The study focused on household heads, cutting across the twenty wards. Systematic random sampling method was used to select 600 household heads used as subjects for the study Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for data analysis. The result of Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) revealed that there is a significant difference between level of satisfaction of tenants and housing conditions in the selected wards. The findings revealed that monthly income, basic infrastructures and housing quality were the most important determinant variables . The study therefore recommends improved environment with infrastructural facilities provided to satisfy tenants in specific in different house types. Also, planners, builders and government agencies should always consider the housing users before building while government should design a developmental strategy geared towards the provision of appropriate basic infrastructures in each ward.
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Household head; housing types; satisfaction; tenants