Socio-Demographic Predictors of Housing Satisfaction among Residents of Public Housing Estates in Minna, Nigeria

Abstract

The importance of housing to man cannot be overemphasized. It predicts spiritual, psychological and physical sense of achievement of social status, security, privacy, and convenience. However, most housing interventions in Nigeria are carried out without adequate consultation/participation of the beneficiaries, thereby creating housing dissatisfaction. This study aimed at investigating the socio-demographic predictors of residents’ satisfaction with public housing estates in Minna; and the objectives are to examine the socio-economic and demographic conditions of the residents of the housing estates and to investigate the relationship between the socio-demographic attributes of the residents and their level of housing satisfaction. A systematic random sampling technique was adopted to administer 297 questionnaires to residents of public housing estates in Minna, Nigeria. Data analysis was conducted with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The majority of the households have a size of 4-9 persons. The respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the location of their kitchens, the landscape elements, wastewater drainage and condition/adequacy of potable water supply. It also revealed that there is a statistically significant relationship between socio-demographic attributes and housing satisfaction among residents of public housing estates in the study area (R² = .988; df = 6; Sig. =.000). There is, therefore, the need to provide potable water and wastewater management and enact and enforce regulations to control household size in the public housing estates in Minna. There is also the need to study the impact of homeownership status on housing satisfaction in the study area as this study did not cover that.