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Search for Public Housing Inhabitants’ Link with the Root

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Public housing inhabitants’ experiences were harnessed through a survey in order to ascertain factors that motivated user-initiated transformation. By extension, inhabitants’ spatial desires that appear to be linked with their root were established. In achieving this, statistical methods consisting of univariate as well as inferential statistical analysis were used to establish the significant impact of sociocultural, socio-economic and socio-physical dimensions in the transformations process. This was based on information obtained from the distributions of questionnaire forms through a random sampling conducted in a purposive study of selected public housings across the region. Finally, the significant factors as experienced by the inhabitants during the process of public housing transformation were revealed. The outcome relates inhabitant link with their root as reflected in the motivating factors.

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Isah, A.D. (2016). Search for Public Housing Inhabitants’ Link with the Root. In: Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40192-8_5

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