The impact of rapid population growth on housing development in a developing economy is usually a
consequence of the push of the rural areas and the pull of the town. There is always an upsurge and
conglomeration of people in city centres with the resultant effects on housing growth arising from acute
unemployment. This growth and physical expansion of cities have been accompanied by unplanned urban
sprawl, environmental pollution, deterioration, deficiencies in modern basic facilities, and general urban decay.
As increased poverty and urbanization exert more pressures on urban facilities, most Nigerian cities tend to
have lost their original dignity, social cohesion and administrative efficiency. This paper revealed the
consequences of the problems of urbanization in Nigeria using empirical data from the metropolitan Lagos.The
study is based on data collected from sixteen Local Government Areas consisting of 53 residential zones in
metropolitan Lagos. Out of the total number of 135,820 properties, a size of about 1% (1,500) was randomly
selected. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to resolve the objectives and the formulated
hypotheses. Some of the findings include the upsurge in population growth rate of the city that took a sharp turn
in the 20th century caused by rural-urban migration thereby resulting in an unprecedented high rent cost due to the
insufficient housing delivery system. Also the spatial expansion of the city was massive to the extent that the
boundaries could no longer be differentiated from the adjoining Ogun State.