**2.3 Future housing**

The Nigerian population continued to grow geometrically while housing provision is in its trail. Recently, the minister for Power, Steel and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fasola, declared that there was no housing shortage in Nigeria. This he premised on the fact that many urban dwellers have houses in rural areas especially their native towns and villages not adequately in use. Many of the rural dwellers do not have quality housing while most of the urban settlers live in slums and substandard housing. This claim presents some facts about available housing in Nigeria but does not at any rate diminish the fact that Nigerian housing provision at the current pace cannot meet the future housing needs of the Nigerian demographics [7, 26]. Nigeria needs to construct 1.2 million housing units per year to offset the current housing deficit [27]. The goal of the revised national housing policy of year 2006 was to ensure that Nigerians have access to decent, safe and healthy housing accommodation at affordable price. Hence, to achieve qualitative housing provision, Nigeria future housing must consider implementing the green building requirements. These requirements are established as 5 impact factors. The imperative of this requirement to the Nigerian future housing are as follows:
