This article assesses housing quality in Ibeju-Lekki, a peripheral settlement outside Lagos metropolitan region. Using purposive sampling, 370 housing units from clusters of 16 periurban settlements constituted the sample size. Primary data was sourced through structured questionnaires, interview (with local planning personnel) and observation schedules administered through a field survey. Using Statistical Package for Social Sciences, data analysis was done using descriptive analysis to generate frequencies and percentages on socio-economic profile, neighbourhood quality, locational quality, dwelling quality, and building materials used. Tests of correlation were conducted on the mean of variables of neighbourhood quality, locational quality and building materials, derived through recoding of variables by means of Transform statistical tool, to establish the factors influencing housing quality in the study area. The findings show a significant positive correlation between household income and housing quality. The latter is found to be influenced by respondents’ socio-economic attributes, building materials, neighbourhood quality, and locational quality in the study area. It can be concluded that socio-economic characteristics, predominantly income of households, play a major role in the level of housing quality that can be accessed in the study area. It is, therefore, recommended that the state government and private developers should promote alternative building materials, in order to enhance housing affordability by the low-income group. This will reduce the spread of informal housing development. In addition, the state government should align urban policy to eliminate disparity in infrastructural development which has impacted on poor neighbourhood and locational quality in Lagos peri-urban settlements. Keywords: Dwelling quality, housing quality, locational quality, neighbourhood quality, peri-urban settlements

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尼日利亚拉各斯州伊贝朱-莱基郊区定居点的住房质量评估

本文评估了拉各斯大都市区外围的伊贝朱-莱基（Ibeju-Lekki）的住房质量。通过有针对性的抽样，从16个郊区定居点的集群中找到了370个住房单元，构成了样本量。原始数据来自结构化的调查表，与当地规划人员的访谈和通过实地调查制定的观察时间表。使用社会科学统计软件包，使用描述性分析完成数据分析，以生成关于社会经济概况，邻里质量，位置质量，居住质量和所用建筑材料的频率和百分比。通过邻域质量，位置质量和建筑材料的变量平均值进行相关性测试，这些变量是通过使用Transform统计工具对变量进行重新编码而得出的，建立影响研究区域住房质量的因素。调查结果表明，家庭收入与住房质量之间存在显着的正相关。发现后者受受访者的社会经济属性，建筑材料，邻里质量和研究区域位置质量的影响。可以得出结论，社会经济特征，主要是家庭收入，在研究区域可获取的住房质量水平中起着重要作用。因此，建议州政府和私人开发商推广替代建筑材料，以提高低收入群体的住房承受能力。这将减少非正式住房发展的蔓延。此外，州政府应调整城市政策，以消除基础设施发展方面的差异，这种差异已影响拉各斯郊区居民区的不良邻里和位置质量。关键字：居住质量，住房质量，区位质量，邻里质量，城郊居民点