**1. Introduction**

Nigeria is a country with rapidly growing population with an estimated yearly increase of 3.5% per annum. The country is projected to be the 4th most populous by year 2050 with a population of 410 million. Interestingly, over 60% of her population are below 45 years of age [1]. Unfortunately, Nigeria is one of the countries with great housing challenge. The current housing shortage is estimated at 28million units. The country needs to provide 1.2 units per annum to bridge the housing gap [2]. Another problem with housing provision in Nigeria is the poor quality of the available ones with attendant social, environmental and economic implications. Efforts to ameliorate the housing problem by subsequent governments in the country have minimally achieve the expected result while various resources were consumed in the process. Apart from the high cost of such housing schemes, there were no consideration for sustainability—social, economic and environmental. The changing global climatic condition and increasing high cost of living have further compounded the challenges confronting quality housing provision. Hence Nigeria needs to evolve ways to adequately provide quality and affordable housing for her citizens now and especially the growing population of the younger ones. One of such intervention is the green housing [3, 4].

Green housing is the provision of housing without unnecessary consumption of physical environmental and natural resources thereby leaving a lighter footprint on the environment. Green housing development ensures economical and optimal utilization of resource by minimizing wastes, reduce carbon emission, making use of renewable and natural energy sources, green hosing provision conserves water through the use gray water, water harvesting, reducing the use of clean water through technologies. Green housing improves the indoor environmental quality thereby improving user comfortability and health. With the dwindling national economic resources and consistently growing youthful population, the adoption of green housing becomes imperative for future housing [4].
