In a bid to address the worsening condition of most low-cost housing and Federal Housing Authority (FHA) blocks of flats and apartments in Lagos, stakeholders have advocated serious interventions to fix infrastructural decay in most of these housing estates.
The low-cost housing which is bandied together in several blocks of flats is cited at various local government areas (LGAs) in Lagos State and they are poorly maintained by authorities and existing occupants living in the various apartments.
This development caught the attention of professionals and stakeholders in the built sector such that most of them are advocating for the renovation and urgent maintenance of Low-cost housing to stem the tide of dilapidation.
While suggesting measures to put in place to address the worrisome level of dilapidated infrastructure in these low-cost housing estates, they noted that the government needs to make bold interventions to address the poor maintenance of low-cost housing schemes and also the houses managed by the federal housing authority to ensure that proper facility management is delivered to the low-cost housing sector.
A cursory look at a block of flats around Oluwole Estate (Wemco road) Ogba and federal authority housing scheme in Festac, Meiran, Agege, Isolo, Abesan estate showed dilapidated burglary rails, corroded roofing sheets, bad tanks, flooding of estate areas, faded paintings, collapsed fence, broken septic tank, poor sanitary condition, absence of security personnel and mostly non-functional street lights.
Findings by the report showed that the low-cost housing estate and federal housing authority scheme built by the past governments to tackle housing deficit shortfall are reeking of decayed infrastructure while the occupants live in squalor and poor condition with moribund and obsolete infrastructure that can’t guarantee better livelihoods of the residents.
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