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How is the housing crisis in Lagos leading to the development of slums in…
How is the housing crisis in Lagos leading to the development of slums in the area?
What benefits did upper class
people gain from this situation?
Subsidised housing areas
They gained special access to safe
housing subsidised by the goverment
GRA: goverment residential areas
Passed down form the british colonizers
to the elite and nigerian goverment officials
Increased wealth gap between the
elite and the nigerians in the slums
Efforts to create housing solutions aren't working
UN supported efforts for low income housing that
wasn't met despite population increasing by 4x
What factors are contributing to the lack of help and actions towards avaible housing for citizens?
Corruption
In goverment and private sectors, stopped progress
being made for the people and only benefitted the rich
Increased urbanization
The more they develop the area to more
people will migrate to that area
More people is what s contributing
to the lack of housing availability
Political and econimic instability
Lagos has experienced many types of
goverment, primairily militry dictatorships
This political and economic situation did nothing to
help the livelyhoods of the citizens in need of action
What does the colonialisation of
africa contribute to their housing crisis?
People from all rural areas moved
out for work opportunities
Mostly agricultural
Lead to overpopulation of the area
Development project by colonilalists
brought more action to the region
Port systems
Schools/homes
Roads/railways
British began to enslave the aftrican populations
Segragation was introduced rather
than public health and sanitation
Introduction of influenza and the plague