خلاصة:
Migration of people to urban areas from the rural areas usually comes with its challenges interms of infrastructural requirement and housing to cater for growing population. One of the challenge for the urbandwellers in Nigeria is that of adequate housing. The inability of the government to meet this demand has seen thepeople concerned seeking alternative solutions to housing need. The resulting settlements are usually unplanned hencebecoming a challenge for government to manage in terms of providing infrastructure facilities. With the growingincidence of global warming and the attendant increase in flooding in most urban areas of Nigeria, especially betweenyear 2000 and 2013, the safety of the people who live in slums have become a concern to the state governments due toissues of flooding and collapsed buildings. Government usually evicts such people and clear the settlement; howeverthe people simply relocate to another area. The aim of this paper is to examine how community participation can beused to provide housing for the urban poor based on their living requirement, drawing from the experience of selectedcase studies from Kenya. The research method adopted for the study is a qualitative research method using case studiesof selected communities in Kenya and selected communities in Nigeria. A comparative analysis is drawn with thesecommunities. The research concludes by proposing how community participation process should be incorporated intoprovision of housing for the urban poor.
ملخص الجهاز:
With the growing incidence of global warming and the attendant increase in flooding in most urban areas of Nigeria, especially between year 2000 and 2013, the safety of the people who live in slums have become a concern to the state governments due to issues of flooding and collapsed buildings.
The aim of this paper is to examine how community participation can be used to provide housing for the urban poor based on their living requirement, drawing from the experience of selected case studies from Kenya.
The urban poor usually are found in areas referred to as slums or informal settlements which in most cases lack tenure, adequate infrastructure and structurally sound and safe houses.
According to Angel (2000), developing countries during the 20th century usually constructed houses and got people to occupy them before the provision of infrastructure, this trend has been carried to the 21st century with private land owners doing the same.
The people at the receiving end of these actions are the urban poor, hence you find that quite a number of them usually bound together in any new settlement and provide housing that is neither safe nor properly planned as evident by the number of community groups they form within the settlements, Amnesty International Report (2010).
These areas in Nigeria usually have poor access road, little or no drainages, poor houses and lack basic social infrastructures, (Olotuah & Taiwo, 3013).
shows an example of the type of housing unit design usually provide for someone considered as urban poor by Government, as compared to fig.