“The centre for housing and sustainable development (CHSD) at the university of Lagos was established to provide learning and research support  for evidence- based policy and practice for the housing sector in Africa. Since inception in December  , the centre has made several achievements in its core areas of research, capacity building  in the housing sector, advocacy, regeneration and consultancy

The centre is partly funded by grants from the African Development Bank and is the first of six Centres of excellence to be established in African Universities. it is the ARUA Centre for Excellence in Urbanization and Habitable cities thus coordinating multidisciplinary research activities and capability building across various urbanization and built environment thematic areas in partnership with the thirteen ARUA member universities , CHSD provides opportunities for in-depth engagement and solution finding to Africa’s most critical urban issues, it is also a core partner in the TU Berlin-Wits-UNILAG SDG Urban lab which has bee designed to provide postgraduates education in urban matters

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