Proceeding upon a rights-based platform, SERAC’s Nigeria Social Housing Initiative seeks to undertake integrated, innovative approaches towards slum communities’ improvement of their housing conditions and the social, economic and environmental functioning of their neighborhoods.

SERAC’s Nigeria Social Housing Initiative Pilot Project has five primary objectives:

• to create an awareness among target slum communities on the need to explore and harness their individual and collective potential to improve their housing, and regenerate the physical, social, economic and environmental conditions of their communities;
• to establish social housing cooperative(s) as the coordinating mechanism for target communities’ ownership of, and participation in, the program;
• to boost income generating opportunities in the target communities through training on technical crafts and other economically viable skills;
• to design and institute a savings scheme to retain and grow members’ financial capacity to participate in the activities of the social housing cooperatives; and
• to promote engagement among community members; policy and legislative officials at local, state and federal government levels; professional and trade bodies; civil society groups; the organized and informal private sector; and the media on the imperative for developing an enabling and strategic policy, legal and collaborative framework for social housing in Nigeria.