Nigeria's housing crisis is not about scarcity - it is about a state that has abdicated its responsibility to provide adequate shelter in favour of market-driven solutions that enrich private actors while failing ordinary citizens. Despite constitutional promises of "suitable and adequate shelter," Nigerian housing policy remains trapped in a cycle of market fundamentalism that treats homes as commodities ra
Nigeria's housing crisis is not about scarcity - it is about a state that has abdicated its responsibility to provide adequate shelter in favour of market-driven solutions that enrich private actors while failing ordinary citizens. Despite constitutional promises of "suitable and adequate shelter," Nigerian housing policy remains trapped in a cycle of market fundamentalism that treats homes as commodities ra