Assessment of residents' satisfaction with public housing in Abuja, Nigeria

Identifying the changes in the quality of life of Southern African Development Community (SADC) migrants in South Africa from 2001 to 2011

“…The housing conditions in which migrants reside also influence their QOL -having a lower income and no collateral to obtain loans from formal institutions make it impossible for them to purchase and own a good-quality house comprised of permanent building materials that would be able to house many dependents, family members or friends (IOM 2007;McDonald 1998;Ukoha & Beamish 1997). The result is that many migrants, especially in the developing countries, end up living in overcrowded informal settlements with no tenure security (in some cases renting backyard shacks) and inadequate service delivery (Balbo 2005).…”

Occupants housing satisfaction: does age really matter?

“…In their theory of housing adjustment, Morris and Winter (cited in Ukoha & Beamish, 1997) offer predictors of housing satisfaction in which they contend that this occurs when the housing situation is not consistent with the cultural, family and community housing norms; any shortfall on the housing situation may push the household to make some form of adjustment or adaptations to make housing consistent with their norms. The incongruity between the actual housing situation and housing norms results in housing deficits, which give rise to residential dissatisfaction.…”

“…Oh (2000) considers residential satisfaction components to include quality of dwelling unit, quality of close environment and quality of urban site. Previous studies have considered dwelling unit features (Salleh, 2008;Ukoha & Beamish, 1997).…”

“…Housing satisfaction models as advanced by many researchers have found a series of factors as significant determinants of overall housing satisfaction, these include physical characteristics, demography and socio-economic characteristics among others (Jiboye, 2009;Liu, 1999;Lu, 1999;Ogu, 2002;Salleh, 2008;Teck-Hong, 2012;Ukoha & Beamish, 1997). Previous studies have shown relationships between demographic factors and occupants' housing satisfaction.…”

Comparison of Housing Facility Management between Mainland China and Taiwan Region

“…There is an increasing amount of research on FM sectors, such as customer satisfaction of FM (Hui and Zheng 2010;Ukoha and Beamish 1997) or quality surveys (Lai 2010). Before the economic reform in the 1980s, all social housing in the urban areas in China was completely owned by the state (Wang and Horner 2012).…”