The Assessment of Housing Situation among Students in the University of Lagos

The student housing has been a major area of concern with increasingstudent population as a result of increasing interest in the higher institutionsof learning over the years. The rise in population which has led to variousproblematic conditions of student housing which range from inadequateinfrastructure facilities to overcrowding, has indeed met with renewedinterest in sourcing and researching the best practicable approach towardsthe enablement and efficient, conducive academic driven environment. Thisresearch paper assessing the student housing condition in University ofLagos, aimed at the assessment of the state and condition of studentshousing. A total number of 400 questionnaires were administered in theentire student hostels and data collected were presented through the use oftables, graphs, photographs and simple multiple regression. The studyrevealed that there is a level of dissatisfaction with the poor state andcondition of available student housing facilities, the inadequacy of theexisting facilities which has created high occupancy ratio has invariable ledto over utilization of the available resources putting the facilities indeplorable conditions