**3. Conclusions**

Nigeria has a large and growing population. A large percentage of this population are young people with the median age at 22.7 years. Historical population growth and the estimated growth till 2050 in addition with the current housing deficit poses a great challenge to housing provision in Nigeria. Subsequent efforts by previous administration have failed to meet expected target of various housing polices. Despite, these polices and subsequent housing development did not consider sustainability issues. The resultant economic, social and environment impacts of the housing development policies were not considered. To meet the housing needs of this teeming population, more physical and natural environmental resources will be consumed. This will further compound the current negative environmental foot prints of housing provision. There will be increased environmental degradation, massive depletion of physical and natural resources, increased construction waste generation with indiscriminate disposal of such, more deforestation and generation of heat highlands and much more. The economic implication of this is enormous. With the huge amount of both public and individual resources committed to housing provision, the life cycle cost implication and social impact of the future housing will be daunting. Hence, efforts towards housing provision should implement green building requirements.

Green housing will minimize the development of urban sprawl, minimize resource consumption and reduce greenhouse gas generation among others. Green housing provides Nigeria the opportunity to minimize the challenges of qualitative housing provision.

*Perspective Chapter: Imperative of Nigerian Demographics for Green Housing DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108794*
