Impacts Of Housing Cooperative Societies On Economic Growth

(A CASE STUDY OF AJEROMI IFELODUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAGOS) CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study         Kinnis (2002) defined, co-operative housing as a society that co-operatively owns a group of houses or flats in. which each member participates actively in all matters concerning the estate. Sazama (2000) observes that, cooperative housing is a society where members/residents jointly own their buildings, democratically control them and receive social and economic benefits accruable from living in and owing them co-operatively. Housing co-operative is a pragmatic and cost effec…