96:, Balogun St, and Victoria St (Nnamdi Azikiwe st). The motive of the clearance was to provide an healthier environment but was also seen as an exercise promoted by Nigerian political elites who were not comfortable with the existence of slums in the nation's capital as independence was looming. The plan was to acquire the residences, redevelop the land and sell it back to the original owners with a caveat that the new buildings should be modernized. Some property owners and residents affected were asked to move to Surulere where a Western model storey building accommodating a nuclear family other than an extended family was planned. However, many of the original residents could not afford to buy back the plots of land.
133:, the corporation focused on building low cost apartments. By 1992, the company had built more than 17,000 units in Ojokoro, Isolo, Amuwo Odofin, Ijaye and Iba. A lot of these projects, especially the low cost estates are allocated without a clear criteria for choosing buyers, as a result many of the owners are investors who later rent out the buildings to tenants at high prices. In 1999, the new democratic government through LSDPC started new estates tagged Millennium Housing Scheme.
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Executive Development Board.The first Nigeria Secretary to LEDB is Olayinka Kingpaul In addition, to
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motivated LEDB to become more invested in providing infrastructure for Lagos residents and also intensification of slum clearance. The corporation developed housing schemes in Apapa (1953), and a new estate in
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is a state government owned corporate entity that builds, rents and sells houses to low, medium and high income families in Lagos. Some of the structures developed by the company include:
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Assessment of Why the Problems of Housing Shortages Persist in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria".
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Over the years, the board built and sold houses and plots of land to civil servants, investors and Lagos residents. Some early housing projects were the
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established Ikeja Area
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Reclamation Scheme. However, the swamp clearing and insanitary structures monitoring generated its share of criticism, in 1930, Eleko
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and a few other suburbs of Lagos. Another agency, Epe Town
Planning (ETPA) managed land use outside metropolitan Lagos.
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estate started in 1929 and the Lagos
Central Slum Clearance Planning Scheme started in 1951. In the 1950s, a rise in
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Bigon, L (February 2008). "Between Local and
Colonial Perceptions: The History of Slum Clearances in Lagos".
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and monitoring insanitary buildings. Some of the early activities of the organization included swamp
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projects through pumping sand; activities that later led to the Iganmu
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