Mixed-Income Housing in Lagos, Nigeria.

This project presents a proposal which aims to address the high levels of substandard living and unemployment in Lagos. The city’s dominant typology of new high-end developments is only affordable to wealthier residents. Consequently, most low income earners in Lagos reside in informal settlements which provide the only affordable space remaining in the city. The scheme challenges this disparity and exemplifies how a mutually beneficial mixed housing development could provide low-income residents with affordable housing and business space aimed at providing services to high income residents.

The research highlighted certain livelihoods that are a lifeline for impoverished communities in Lagos. A further role of the new proposal was to facilitate these professions, prioritising the occupation of fishing into the commercial spaces, preserving both the source of income for the low-income earners, and protecting this core part of their cultural identity.