Vol. 14, No. 1, June 2022

Good housing is crucial to family life, physical and mental health, child development, employability, social and financial inclusion and the creation of sustainable balanced communities. Shortage of adequate housing virtually abounds in every country, particularly in the developing nations. The shortage is in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Planners and Geographers alike tend to use rural infrastructural development as a strategy to redress this problem. This study examines rural housing and economic development programme as a capacity building process at both the state and local level to support innovative housing and economic development which will result in tackling the problems of poverty, inadequate housing and lack of economic opportunities in the rural area. Purposive sampling method was used and a 368 copies questionnaire were administered based on the population in the study area which is 1% of the target population. Chi-Square analysis was used to test the level of significance between the level of development income and the types of residential building in the study area. The study reveals that (X cal= 83.5, df =8 P<0.03, X’ table = 15.507) since X'cal >x’ table) there is a positive relationship between the level of development (income) and the types of residential building in Isin L.G.A. The study also reveals that planning Jor integrated rural development without facts on rural basic needs has limited chances for success, no matter how hard we try in both policy formulation and implementation. This also calls for sustainable development which ensures a better quality of life for everyone now and for generations to come.

Keywords: Housing, Development, Nigeria, Sustainable, Rural