Factors Militating Against Affordable Housing in Africa: A Case Study of Abuja Metropolis

Housing is one of the basic necessities of the human being asides water clothing and food, and this for the people of Africa is deficient and almost nonexistent. Africa is usually referred to as the Dark continent or the third world and so from time the branding it got affected it’s psyche and so it has come to behave the way the name implies in the sense that the region has not been able to proffer solutions to the socio-economic aspirations of its teeming populations across its various countries, and so the issue of having the basic necessities of life is still a mirage for its people and so this paper seeks to look at the factors responsible for the inability of the African state to overcome the challenge of bridging the housing deficit gap, the paper also seeks to outline and analyze the current housing trend as is obtainable with the residents of Abuja metropolis of Nigeria, with a view to knowing their issues and finally proffer recommendations that will jump start the process to the availability of affordable housing for all.