Assessment Of Factors Considered In The Development Of Housing For Resilient City: A Study Of Abuja, Nigeria

Housing for resilient city offers characteristics that would enable housing relate efficiently with the exigencies of the city. However, in adeveloping country like Nigeria, there is little understanding of the specific factors mass housing developers consider in the conception and implementation of housing schemes that promote urban resilience. This study, therefore, investigated the factors that housing professionals consider important in the development of public housing schemes with aim of assessing how such schemes are resilient to the impact of rapid population growth in Abuja, Nigeria. The study was based on a questionnaire survey of 53 housing professionals involved in the development of selected public housing scheme of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) in the study area. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and relative importance index (RII). The result reveals that with RII=0.833, cost of development was the most important economic factor; layout of housing estates (RII= 0.819) was top on the list of the environmental factors; while mixed neighbourhood (RII=0.725) was considered the most important social factor in the development of housing. This study implies that for public housing schemes to enhance city resilience, considerations should be given to social characteristics of housing development alongside economic and environmental factors.