It is also referred to as the house and defined as a home, building or structure that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term “house” includes many kinds of dwellings, ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures (Wikipedia, 2011).
Williams (2007) refers to it as a dwelling place, constructed as a home for one or more persons. The Special Issue on Contemporary Issues in Social Science © Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA www. jhssnet. com 122 It is any type of permanent shelter for man, which gives him an identity (Omoniyi and Jiboye, 2009).
Godwin (1998) defined it as “the space that we can call our own, that gives us privacy and shelters us from the weather and intrusions of unwanted people”. Housing in all its ramifications is more than mere shelter. It embraces all the social services and utility that goes to make a community or neighbourhood a live-able environment. (FGN, 1991; Omoniyi and Jiboye, 2009).
Housing has become a critical component in the social, economic and health fabric of every nation.
Its history is inseparable from the social, economic, cultural and political development of man (Listokin et al. , 2007).
As a unit of environment, it has a profound influence on the health, efficiency, social behavior, satisfaction, productivity and general welfare of the individual and community. It reflects the cultural social and economic values of a society as it appears the best physical and historical evidence of civilization in a country and a reliable measure or indicator of economic development (Jiboye, 2009)
The Term Paper on The Social Economic And Legal Impact Resulting From EBusiness
This project is to investigate and analyse the social, economic and legal impact resulting from the adoption and growth of eBusiness. The project also investigated the web-based business of Rosenbluth and Dell. eBusiness is not just the buying and selling of goods and services it is also servicing customers, collaborating with business partners and conducting electronic transactions within an ...
Housing has been universally accepted as the second most important essential human need. The right to adequate housing is considered a core human right. Housing rights were first universally codified on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Article 25 of the Declaration states: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and ell being for himself and for his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control” The 1976 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which is now binding on more than 149 countries, including Nigeria, has the most significant universal codification provision of the right to adequate housing in its article II(1) which states:
The State Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living of himself and for his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The State Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent” The Nigerian State is enjoined by Section 16(1)(d) of the 1999 Constitution under the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy: to provide suitable and adequate shelter for all citizens”. Regrettably, this objective of State Policy is not actionable in law as no citizen can enforce it as a right. Because housing is a right, this fundamental objective should be part and parcel of a section of the Constitution enforceable by Nigerians. It should therefore be removed from and under the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy.
The Term Paper on State Farm Social Responsibility
Introduction As businesses worldwide continue to transition from production focuses to service mentalities, so has the zeitgeist of business operation. Profit-maximization goals are no longer predicated solely on selling more products or services; these goals are now also predicated on social responsibility, also called social awareness. In order to maintain its reputation as the premier insurance ...
The Constitutional provision which should be actionable shall be such that all strata of our society – including the less privileged members, the old, the disadvantaged as well as the wandering psychotics who require confinement and rehabilitation – can own or have access to decent, safe and sanitary housing accommodation at affordable disposal price or house occupation with secure tenure. Housing, in all its ramifications, is more than mere shelter, since it embraces all the social services and utilities that go to make a community or neighbourhood a liveable environment.
The problems of housing in Nigeria are enormous and complex, exhibiting marked regional differences. Furthermore, the challenges faced by the rapid rate of uncontrolled and unplanned urban growth are immense. Millions of people live in sub-standard and sub-human environment characterized by slum, squalor and grossly inadequate social amenities. The problem of housing in our urban centres is not only restricted to the quantity of housing stock, but also to the quality of available housing units, infrastructure and the environment.
The result is manifested in growing overcrowding in homes, neighbourhoods, communities and increasing pressure on infrastructural facilities such as roads, drainages, power supply, etc and rapidly deteriorating environment. The scenario is slightly different in the rural areas where the problems are primarily, not just that of inadequate quantity of housing units, but also that of inadequate and poor infrastructural facilities, such as roads, drainages, water, power supply and basic social amenities (schools, healthcare facilities, etc).
