Location preferences of workers and implications for urban housing stock in Nigeria; A case study in Ogbomoso

This study examines the preferences of urban workers for the location of their personal houses. Four location options were presented to the entire non-academic staff of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso. The options include Employees Home Town (EHT), Employees Working Town (EWT), Employees State Capital (ESC), and Others; where others may include the Federal Capital City, the Local Government Headquarters, the spouse's home town or any other location or town outside the first three options given above.

The methodology involves the administration of questionnaires, seeking to know in order of preference, location choice of employees; for their personal residential houses among the four options given above. A total of 227 questionnaires were distributed to all available non-academic staff members of LAUTECH in the Vice Chancellors Office and the Farm, Registry, Bursary, Health Centre, Security Unit and the Physical Development Unit of the university. The result shows that employees generally prefer their home towns for the location of their personal residential houses.