Increase cost of housing in Nigeria - what's the solution?

[Promocodeudo]

The increase of rent in Nigeria is really bad and it's truly affecting a lot of people as you have mentioned. I think the house owner are in full control of rent, so I think the government are the major cause in the increase of rent in the country.  The government needs to invest more in housing,  so they can help control cost of rent in the country. Imagine if the government provides 30% of housing,  they should be able to control the cost of renting a house or an apartment. 
The government also have to make policies,  that controls cost of rent in every area of the society.

Yea to address the problem if housing, the government has to make it a priority, the government aren't giving attention to this issue and the reason is simple, most of the senators, governors, all the top government officials owns houses across our country Nigeria, I will tell you guys for free that many of them are happy with what's happening so that they will make more money for themselves, they don't care if we the citizens do exist, our president also have house every where, it will be a joke of the century if we think that these set of leader will fix housing problems, they know what to do but won't do it because they think that if they do it, it won't favour them, we have selfish leaders that only think about how to thief our money.

[DYOR+BTC]

You’re right, the cost of house in Nigeria is now very high and expensive, and it’s really affecting we the citizens, many people can’t afford good house again, that’s why they’re managing to stay in slum area, that’s not good for the health, where there’s  No clean water, poor sanitation and sickness spread easily because the environment is not clean. The problem currently isn’t only house that’s costly, including buying  land, building materials are too expensive. Government needs to do something about it, we have ministers that are suppose to handle housing and other development, but it seems like they’re not doing anything. They’re supposed to create affordable housing, give landlords a particular amount that they should place their house, anyone who fail to listen to the instructions should face the law. If government can abide by this, I believe the rate of house price will reduce and suffer will also reduce.

Assuming the problem of Nigeria  now is only high cost of rent  it would have been an easy one to look into but In Nigeria now I will say we don't know the problem to fix first because all is at a high level.  In Nigeria  now after getting an apartment which is supposed to bring relief to one, other challenges will surface and some of this challenges are increased in hardship,  constant inflation, uncontrollable security,  unavailability of land and so many heart breaking challenges. 

[Africolo]

The increase in house cost in Nigeria should be reduced by government helping the masses to reduce the cost of building materials in market, ln other word, help the land lords reduce the house rest for their tenants.

Also, the government should help the land lords reduce nepa bill, because I think that is another factor causing the high cost of housing in Nigeria.

I may disagree with you on your opinion, government can't reduce the cost of building materials because this business Men that sells this materials are reselling it due to the cost price they bought it for and this arise from the inflation in the economy so you don't expect government to reduce the price, what is expected of the government to do is to create Jobs for the Youths and build locust houses for the masses and give discounts on the rentage in that way the people can be able to pay those rents and live comfortably.

There should be rent regulations in Nigeria because the level at which landlords wake up and increase rents is uncalled for, sometimes ago the government of Enugu State house of Assembly passed a bill and said the landlords should reduce their rents though I never heard anything about that bill if it was actually passed into law and enforced. It's not even the landlords that pay NEPA Bill they tax the tenants and pay from the contributions made, The only solution is building locust houses and regulate rent by landlords.

[Olatundespo]

The increase of rent in Nigeria is really bad and it's truly affecting a lot of people as you have mentioned. I think the house owner are in full control of rent, so I think the government are the major cause in the increase of rent in the country.  The government needs to invest more in housing,  so they can help control cost of rent in the country. Imagine if the government provides 30% of housing,  they should be able to control the cost of renting a house or an apartment. 
The government also have to make policies,  that controls cost of rent in every area of the society.

Yea to address the problem if housing, the government has to make it a priority, the government aren't giving attention to this issue and the reason is simple, most of the senators, governors, all the top government officials owns houses across our country Nigeria, I will tell you guys for free that many of them are happy with what's happening so that they will make more money for themselves, they don't care if we the citizens do exist, our president also have house every where, it will be a joke of the century if we think that these set of leader will fix housing problems, they know what to do but won't do it because they think that if they do it, it won't favour them, we have selfish leaders that only think about how to thief our money.

Most of those you call representatives are more concerned about their own profit than the people and are corrupt to make more money. Everyone has a government house and more than one private house. If the Nigerian government was thinking about the financial development of the people of the country, they would have taken effective measures to increase foreign investment. They would not have repeatedly printed fiat by laundering money abroad and creating a shortage of funds in the country.

Corruption is not only in the housing sector, you will see corruption in every sector. The government is trapped in a strong bureaucratic web, as a result of which a few elected members try to be fair, but they are removed from that position. Pressure must be increased on the government to solve the housing problem because when you discuss the issue with high ranking officials person they will see the bureaucratic complexity as a big obstacle. A coordinated effort from the government's sense of responsibility is important to solve this problem.

[WIYO1]

The rising cost of housing in Nigeria is a problem that needs attention. Because people can no longer afford to pay for good accommodation, they're forced to live in slums-residential areas that are detrimental to their health, as these places has limited access to clean water and sanitation amongst other leading to high exposure to diseases due to poor hygiene and waste management. Although there are factors that actually contributed to this increase likely scarcity of houses, cost of acquiring a land, construction cost and maintenance etc there's a government in place that's supposed to regulate all these, at times I wonder what the ministry of housing and urban development is for.

The increasing price of housing in Nigeria is fast becoming an area of concern for most people since when affordable and suitable housing is priced out of range, families are forced to settle in overcrowded and poorly maintained neighbourhoods where they may be deprived of even the most basic necessities such as safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities. The lack of proper housing not only has a negative impact on the families’ standard of living but also exposes them to serious health concerns. Many factors can be attributed to the rising prices of housing such as land prices, construction costs, the lack of supplies, etc., however, one must also question the adequacy of the regulatory control exercised by the government. Although government agencies are responsible for overseeing Housing and Urban Development and providing assistance to address these challenges such as providing equitable access to housing and improving the quality of housing, it still appears that there is a large disagreement between public policy and the reality of life for most people.

[Roseline492]

There should be rent regulations in Nigeria because the level at which landlords wake up and increase rents is uncalled for, sometimes ago the government of Enugu State house of Assembly passed a bill and said the landlords should reduce their rents though I never heard anything about that bill if it was actually passed into law and enforced. It's not even the landlords that pay NEPA Bill they tax the tenants and pay from the contributions made, The only solution is building locust houses and regulate rent by landlords.

Lack of opportunities is what is causing this high rent because house owners uses there house as there only source of income, so they often increases there house so that more money will come as they also have a lot of responsibility, I thought before that government regulation would help but thinking how houses are different standard I don't no how they can regulate it but however the best regulations they could have given was creating opportunity because when everybody who are willing to work is working so many persons would start building there own houses so it will reduce the high demand market of renting houses and it will decrease all the prices.

[Finebone]

My question is,when building materials was cheap and affordable,were house rent high? The answer is No right?  We shouldn't be lamenting about the cost of house rent when the price of building materials is soaring higher. Did you think to build a house is small money, did you expect landlords not to increase house rent after spending millions of Naira on building materials? Let's assume the price of petrol rises to 2000ngn per litre, if you were a driver, wouldn't you increase fees for passengers? It won't cost   government a dime to reduce the cost of building materials but they won't because they are benefiting from the current price.

You have just said the most important thing on my mind, because inflation of building materials will always reflect on the cost of housing and accommodate. Just look at the high cost of crude products in the country, it reflected on the cost of transportation and other things that depends crude products like fuel and desiel.
We use to buy a basin of garri 5k, but it's now 7k because transportation has almost doubled, what about rice and other consumable goods, they have all added price, so I will mostly blame the government on this because their incompetency is driving the price of things very high above what the common Nigerians can afford, so if the government are doing the right thing and are chasing the right policy, price of goods, and cost of accomodations will drop naturally on it own.

[Jasmyne]

There should be rent regulations in Nigeria because the level at which landlords wake up and increase rents is uncalled for, sometimes ago the government of Enugu State house of Assembly passed a bill and said the landlords should reduce their rents though I never heard anything about that bill if it was actually passed into law and enforced. It's not even the landlords that pay NEPA Bill they tax the tenants and pay from the contributions made, The only solution is building locust houses and regulate rent by landlords.

Lack of opportunities is what is causing this high rent because house owners uses there house as there only source of income, so they often increases there house so that more money will come as they also have a lot of responsibility, I thought before that government regulation would help but thinking how houses are different standard I don't no how they can regulate it but however the best regulations they could have given was creating opportunity because when everybody who are willing to work is working so many persons would start building there own houses so it will reduce the high demand market of renting houses and it will decrease all the prices.

Actually same thoughts as mine, due to inflation and high economic situation, most landlords only make a living through house rents, so they wouldn’t mind always increasing the rent to any percentage that will favour them and at this rate, most of them do it every year which actually affects other citizens badly because trying to meet up with high rate of rent during this inflation is really hard. So I also believe if they are more opportunities, alongside no high rate of inflation, things wouldn’t be like this, most landlords will have other things doing and not only depend on rents and people will even have the money to build their own houses and wouldn’t depend on paying rent.

[Salahmu]

You have just said the most important thing on my mind, because inflation of building materials will always reflect on the cost of housing and accommodate.

The way house things are too costly in the market, the upcoming house owners is going to see the high price in the future and run, block was very cheep to buy and still strong to lay on the building but those blocks now are sell in high price with low quality because if you step on it, you wouldn't find it whole again because it will break and when you see it on the building after laying, the walls will be cracking, so except I trust your block industry before I could use it for my house.

[Felicity_Tide]

there's a government in place that's supposed to regulate all these, at times I wonder what the ministry of housing and urban development is for.

In as much as I agree to the fact that housing needs to be regulated, especially in this country, I won't overlook the failure of the government either because they clearly set the standard to every single problems that we're facing as a nation today. From increment in price of items that ought to be regulated by the appropriate bodies, to insecurity that ought to be handled by the appropriate bodies as well, etc. it's not longer strange to see Landlords/house owners, increasing price of house occasionally. Let's not even discuss the problems that house agents have brought, because that's a whole new discussion on it's own. It's unfortunate that the government hasn't set enough standards, which makes them absolutely useless in cases like this.

[Promocodeudo]

The way house things are too costly in the market, the upcoming house owners is going to see the high price in the future and run, block was very cheep to buy and still strong to lay on the building but those blocks now are sell in high price with low quality because if you step on it, you wouldn't find it whole again because it will break and when you see it on the building after laying, the walls will be cracking, so except I trust your block industry before I could use it for my house.

The way tina the go eh, very soon many of us wey the pay for house for cities for go to our localities where we get our own comfortable house so far say light and network service dey we no go get issues, the government has always been the problem, yesterday I was asking some guys that came drop cement in one site I went to visit how much  is th factory price, dey tell me say it depends on the product but there own product na #11plus but Dangote is about #13k plus, I come ask them say wetin make the price dey like, them say na name that ends it I come laugh, my bro make I tell you, very soon people will not adap anymore, e go be if you get small land you go go there maybe do your batch there dey because for my area now, it is difficult to see 1bed of 1.4 so e go loud soon, see wetin make block no strong again be say, those block industry them after buying that amount, they go mix am over sand ro make get plenty block from am, e get wetin dem dey do now, burning tires and mixing it with the sound and cement so that when you come buy, you go think say the block stong but all na wayo.

[Tetu100]

The rising cost of housing in Nigeria is a problem that needs attention. Because people can no longer afford to pay for good accommodation, they're forced to live in slums-residential areas that are detrimental to their health, as these places has limited access to clean water and sanitation amongst other leading to high exposure to diseases due to poor hygiene and waste management. Although there are factors that actually contributed to this increase likely scarcity of houses, cost of acquiring a land, construction cost and maintenance etc there's a government in place that's supposed to regulate all these, at times I wonder what the ministry of housing and urban development is for.

It is so sad to know that housing In Nigeria is actually becoming a very big problem as the days pass by , and a average Nigerians are finding it very difficult to corp with this latest development to be very honest. However, most of the cause of all these are as a result of the constants rises of building materials in recent time and the present gorvnment aren't doing anything about it. And secondly, their are some landlords and landladys that are completely jobless, perhaps they have no other thing doing (source of income) therefore depending only on their house rentage money to survive. However, by this they are being subjected to impose all their financial challenges on the tenant through high cost of houses rent which is very unfair and should be unacceptable. And I am urging the government to step in and provide a lasting solution to all this because it is something we can no longer bear honestly speaking, feeding, school fees and all of that is becoming very challenging now high house rentage is adding to it, it's not making sense.

[Halifat]

You’re right, the cost of house in Nigeria is now very high and expensive, and it’s really affecting we the citizens, many people can’t afford good house again, that’s why they’re managing to stay in slum area, that’s not good for the health, where there’s  No clean water, poor sanitation and sickness spread easily because the environment is not clean. The problem currently isn’t only house that’s costly, including buying  land, building materials are too expensive. Government needs to do something about it, we have ministers that are suppose to handle housing and other development, but it seems like they’re not doing anything. They’re supposed to create affordable housing, give landlords a particular amount that they should place their house, anyone who fail to listen to the instructions should face the law. If government can abide by this, I believe the rate of house price will reduce and suffer will also reduce.

Assuming the problem of Nigeria  now is only high cost of rent  it would have been an easy one to look into but In Nigeria now I will say we don't know the problem to fix first because all is at a high level.  In Nigeria  now after getting an apartment which is supposed to bring relief to one, other challenges will surface and some of this challenges are increased in hardship,  constant inflation, uncontrollable security,  unavailability of land and so many heart breaking challenges. 

There is a lot of problems that need to be solved which are not put in front because no one cares especially our leaders, honestly I don't see anything that affect the eye cause of living because even though you mention one who is ready to solve it, right now you are opportune to even have money to rent a house, I think you should be thankful because others cannot afford it, that is why our street are full and government is seeing this everyday, but they pretend not to talk about it because they don't consider that as any factor that they will fight for.

[DYOR+BTC]

The increase in house cost in Nigeria should be reduced by government helping the masses to reduce the cost of building materials in market, ln other word, help the land lords reduce the house rest for their tenants.

Also, the government should help the land lords reduce nepa bill, because I think that is another factor causing the high cost of housing in Nigeria.

Talking about the federal government coming in to reduce the high cost of rent in Nigeria,  that can never be possible because all of the houses where built by private individuals without any help from the government,  so the Nigerian government can not do anything about it.
Just like what happened in Niger of recent,  after building a cement factory the  niger government officially reduced the price of cement because they have what it takes to supply citizens if those factories says no to that option. All government can only intervene in any situation when they have an already established structure to cover the gap if they fails.

[Sammysmart001]

The cost of housing in Nigeria now is something else that allot of poor Nigerian aren’t happy about. Most especially we the student, traveling far from your home town coming to study and u need to look for a place to lay your head down. This agent are the most annoying people the land can decide to fix his lodge the sum of 100k but all this agent will go and be renting this rooms for a 200 upwards. Which is a criminal heart and as a student that not having an option you become so border about how to get that sum of money to pay abd they are other thing to work on again. So this change will not only begin from our government o ly but rather change begins from me and you. The government should also play a vital to make cost of living easy for the average Nigerians.

[Supreme Donvic]

The high cost of living in Nigeria is becoming worst everyday the level at which house rent is high in price is surprising to me I really don't understand what is going on anymore house rent is been increased every year and the government is not even doing anything about  it, there was the time people protested in Port Harcourt because of house rent issue the landlords are increasing the rent without even thinking about the situation of the country and if they ask them they will say a lot of things have gone up in price so there own investment which is the house also need to go up in price so they can meet up and with that you can't actually blame, the reason why everything is very high in price even house rent is because of the bad economy that Nigeria has.
We the citizens of Nigeria are actually going through a lot.

[Berry2d]

The high cost of living in Nigeria is becoming worst everyday the level at which house rent is high in price is surprising to me I really don't understand what is going on anymore house rent is been increased every year and the government is not even doing anything about  it, there was the time people protested in Port Harcourt because of house rent issue the landlords are increasing the rent without even thinking about the situation of the country and if they ask them they will say a lot of things have gone up in price so there own investment which is the house also need to go up in price so they can meet up and with that you can't actually blame, the reason why everything is very high in price even house rent is because of the bad economy that Nigeria has.
We the citizens of Nigeria are actually going through a lot.

Calling on the federal government to intervene on the issue of rent in Nigeria is what i don't think can be possible in this country Nigeria for now but may be in years to come that will be if there is change in government.
Not that am in support of the high increase in house rent but just that you can not implement changes because there is no existing structure that can help them do so. Among all the government in the world now, I will say that of Nigeria is the worst government among all because that of others are still considerate but that of Nigeria are not instead they are ready to destroy all just for there selfish interest.

[Boy-o-boy]

Seriously this matter need to be addressed by all the organizations wey concern both tenants and landlords or land lady’s dem because the issues don go out of hands for my area u go sweat to see house and when you finally see can you even afford it so the thing go make you go settle for less for place wey no even suit your kind of lifestyle self but how you go do nah last last you don finally see house but deep inside you you no dy comfortable at all so me dy talk say government no set any body in place wey go fit regulate this house matter because the high cost of rent too much and their need act fast because people dy suffer get this money

[Bitcoin Maxi]

The increase in the cost of house rent is actually very very crazy. Someone will just hustle throughout the whole year only for rent, it is well oo. I know the cost of building houses now is very expensive due to the hike in the prices of building materials, for new houses we understand that the house was built when building materials are expensive. But the old houses at least should not be expensive. Some of this old houses are sited in improper places, have no maintenance, overcrowded vicinity, some are in places that are not worth it, waterlogged areas and so on and their prices will be so outrageous.
Atleast we have government agencies in charge of housing and urban development and we are calling on them to help us oversee this and help us in improving the quality of houses, how they should be situated and others.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

We all know that everything anchor in government, blaming landlord or landlady is a waste of time, untill the government control the market prices of things, including all aspects create some good policy on how houses could be rented weather government owned properties or private owners as well defined agent terms and conditions of percentage rental increment can't stop.
Government before now make provisions for civil servants even gives most of them with higher rank permanent houses but today such doesn't exist, locusts houses are built by government to reduce cost of limited houses within the society by private house owners but such does not exist neither been carried out by government, even to pertiner with private housing estate to make all this available is not there, it's hard for government to even control what they has not contribution on, considering the cost of building materials and all it takes to build in our society, only solution to the cost of building now is if government can go back to drawing board and begin to invest and partner with housing sector it estate and make provisions for civil services or servants as well certain population as well reduce taxation on private individual going into building where them can have a control of the rent people such as landlord or landlady will fixed their price according to what it takes them to put up the structure.