A Review of Low-Cost Housing Delivery in Port Harcourt Issues and Challenges
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The paper reviewed low-cost housing delivery in Port Harcourt: issues and challenges. It examined and x-rayed the issues and challenges housing in Port Harcourt Rivers State. With so much effort been put into providing affordable and comfortable housing for her citizens, nations around the world, especially the third-world nations have found this task really challenging, even almost impossible, to provide housing for her citizens. The case is not different in Nigeria and in Port Harcourt in particular. Hence, this research work is investigating the challenges of low cost housing in Port Harcourt. The author seeks to proffer solutions to issues bothering mass housing by first of all identifying its challenges. To achieve success in this work, the author went ahead to source for and review some governmental policies on housing delivery and other related relevant information that concern housing in the state. At the end of the research, the author would have established the major challenges of low cost housing in Port Harcourt, as well as, proffering solutions to these challenges.
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