ABANDONED BUILDINGS COOPERATIVE LANDLORDS: AN ALL PROFITABLE PANACEA TO LANDED PROPERTY ABANDONMENT.

Akindele O. A, and Adedibu A. A

Department of Urban and Regional Planning,

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State Nigeria

E-mail: remiakinakindele@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT.

The study appraises the incidence, the intra-urban spatial pattern of landed property abandonment; based on the ecological zoning of high medium and low residential densities. Useful lessons from the developed world about abandoned landed property abatement were examined as well as the feasible prospect of abandoned landed property.  The cities under study were divided into urban blocks. Ten percent (10%) of the urban blocks in each city was sampled where abandoned landed properties were directly enumerated. A questionnaire was also administered to 637 respondents using multi-stage sampling approach. The Nearest Neighbor Analysis was used to explain the spatial pattern of abandonment while t-test, chi-square and ANOVA were used as appropriate to compare the incidence of landed property abandonment between and among cities, locations and residential zones. It was observed that there is a high incidence of landed property abandonment generally but are higher at the medium residential density areas. The abandoned landed properties were observed to be clustering where they are found. In absolute terms, there are more abandoned landed properties in Ogbomoso compared to Osogbo. The study thus recommends a cooperative method reminiscent of a TIL program (used in America); but tempered with socio-economic and cultural values of the Nigerian environment, so that the feasible prospect of gains that the waste of abandoned landed property has the ability to yield under certain circumstances may be achieved.

Keywords: Abandoned landed Property, Cooperative Landlords