Housing in Nigeria: The case of Owerri, Imo state
Abstract This article reviews the government's housing provision for the masses in Owerri, the state capital of Imo State of Nigeria. The study is intended to increase the understanding of the workings and interactions of the Owerri housing sector and to describe the characteristics of the populations, people and employment which affected housing provision in the area, and provides a better understanding of presently existing housing patterns adopted by the government.
The question of real estate price is a focus of society.With the economic development,the urban real estate price has increased rapidly in recent years,but the levels and increasing rates are varied among different cities.The object of this article is to analyze some factors which induce this difference among cities.HLM(Hierarchical Linear Model) is applied to make research on this topic for middle-class cities in China,and some meaningful results are obtained.