t can be rather empowering to own your own property and live in it, especially in a country like ours with no real social supports. Forget rent control – it has never worked in Nigeria and the truth is, it will never work. The principle is faulty and government cannot control what it does not have. The various landlords did not purchase their property through government processes but most or all of them acquired property by private means and tend to insist on the rent that is acceptable to them in a free market economy. So there is a free flow of rent increase rather often; some occur yearly. The ordinary man caught in this cycle and the rising cost of living is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to build a house where there appears to be no funds available for this purpose.
This material will help whoever applies the principles. There has never been a time more appropriate to build your own home especially now as government has been encouraging private hands in property development and declining to build public housing.
