Comparison of Residential Satisfaction among Young Households in Three Unplanned Neighbourhoods in Kano Metropolis, Nigeria

摘要: This study compared residential satisfaction among young households in three unplanned neighbourhoods namely; Wailari, Dorayi Karama and Gama E in Kano, Nigeria. The data for the study was collected randomly from 364 respondents in the neighbourhoods, using self-administered questionnaire and was analysed using descriptive statistics and One-way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA). The result showed that the overall residential satisfaction of the young households was moderate in all the neighbourhoods. The households were most satisfied in Gama E followed by those in Wailari and the least satisfied those in Dorayi. One-way ANOVA revealed that there were statistically significant differences in the mean satisfaction with housing features, neighbourhood facilities and neighbourhood accessibility among the respondents in all the neighbourhoods. The findings revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean of satisfaction with housing conditions in the neighbourhoods. Post-hoc comparison test indicated that satisfaction with neighbourhood accessibility differed among the respondents in the three neighbourhoods, while satisfaction with housing features, neighbourhood facilities differed between Wailari and Dorayi Karama and no difference was found between Wailari and Gama E. This finding suggests that policy makers and planning authorities should enhance residential satisfaction of young households by improving their housing and neighbourhood conditions as well as ways as their socio-economic situations.