Lasisi, L. A. and ADEDIPE, B. O. (2005) GOVERNMENT POLICY AS A DISINCENTIVE TO HOUSING INNOVATION IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA. The Built Environment: Innovation Policy & Sustainable Development, 1 (3). pp. 392-396. ISSN 978-37963
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The desire to turn around the housing sector for improved performance through innovative development has always been canvassed by the major stakeholders in the sector especially the government. Consequently, professionals in the built environment are enjoined to look inward and fashion out appropriate home – grown technology capable of bringing succour to prospective house owners. Similarly, the desirability of patronizing locally made building materials being preached to the citizenry as a way of promoting massive house ownership. But more often than not the overt and covert actions of government prove to be a negation of this laudable aspiration. It has been discovered that most of the government policy measures and regulations do not only constitute a stumbling block on the path of meaningful innovations in the sector but also present anthesis to the overall objective of ensuring massive housing delivery. This study examines such housing related policies and regulations in Ogun State especially in the area of land acquisition and allocation, land document processing, building plans approval procedure, housing schemes preparation and execution among others and found them to be clog in the wheels of innovative practices in the housing sector. It was discovered that such policies were not compatible with innovative development but only serve the narrow interest of the state government. Consequently, a thorough overhauling of this kind of policies was suggested with a view to bring about pragmatic improvement in the sector.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Mr Daniel Kumoye |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2020 18:44 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2020 18:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1071 |
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