Residents’ Perception of Off-Campus Students’ Housing Performance In Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Abstract

The emergence and growth of commercial Off-campus Students’ Housing across Nigerian public university towns are recent but significant phenomena stimulated by student population explosion and prevailing lull in On-campus Students’ Housing development. Performance evaluation of physical and environmental developments is a key component of sustainable development. This work thus reports the result of a survey of residential satisfaction of this Off-campus Students’ Housing in Ile-Ife through an empirical case study of some randomly selected types using structured questionnaires and personal observations. The result reflected different perceptions of performance and residential satisfaction based on the levels of facilities provided. It recommended strict control mechanism for the enforcement of professional design parameters and environmental considerations to enhance better performance of such developments.

Keywords: Residents’ perception, performance evaluation, students’ housing, off-campus housing, on-campus housing, residential satisfaction