Abstract:
Housing affordability in developing cities with an increasing popu lation is a huge challenge and may lead to homelessness if not
checked. Studies showed that homeownership at a young age has
been demonstrated as a fruitful approach to mitigate homelessness
in cities but how far concerning Nigeria’s homeownership for the
young-adult professionals is yet to be given the necessary in-depth
research. Therefore, this paper investigated the fate of young-adult
professionals’ homeownership (YPH) and proffers feasible policy
solutions to improve young-adult homeownership. This will miti gate homelessness in society. Six cities in Nigeria were employed as
the case study to accomplish the paper’s aim through a qualitative
research design because this is probably the first study to explore
this approach. Findings show the inadequacy of government’s pre vious housing policies to provide affordable and sustainable houses
for young-adult professionals. Thus, this paper proffers feasible
policies to promote young-adult homeownership and form part of
the paper’s contribution to the body of knowledge. Also, recom mendations proffered will be relevant to policymakers in other
developing cities across the world with similar YPH crises. Thus,
one of the outcomes will be to mitigate future homelessness in
developing cities among young-adult professionals
