Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Residential Conditions in Iloorin West LGA: A Case Study of Okelele-Adangba Communities
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2019
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Association of Nigerian Geographers
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Poverty and unemployment are concentrating in the cities due to the urbanization trend. Housing in developing nations and poor parts of developed countries continues to be of insufficient quality and quantitu to meet increasing demand. However, this research was perceiver with the aim of assessing the residential conditions of Okelele-Adangba community by assessing the infrastructural facilities, housing conditions, sanitary facilities, associated disasters, etc. 119 buildings were sampled through the use of systematic sampling of interval of 5 buildings. The findings show that the study area exhibit evidence of slum that has undeniable impact on the socio-economic activities. However, the regression analysis performed shows that the calculated F value of 22.26 is by far, greater than the F table value of 2.31 at significant level of 0.05 and degree of freedom 5.94, which shows the dependency of housing satisfaction on some principle factors. The research conclude the findings with few recommendations like slum upgrading and economic rejuvenation, provision of infrastructure master plan, as the way forward.