Essentially, housing is one of the most basic needs of man from creation (Nurdini & Belgawan Harun, 2012; Kurian & Thampuran, 2001). According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, shelter is the first need Man thinks of after satisfying his need for food and clothing. Satisfying this basic need for shelter has seen several interventions for centuries spanning from individual initiatives, community self-help, corporate organizations, NGOs, and governments. The efforts to satisfy the housing need have hugely been influenced by the nature of the requirement, geographic location, ethnicity, colonial impact, and national policy direction. In the Palaeolithic era, man sought to satisfy this need in the form of caves, makeshift tents, nomadic artifacts, traditional mud houses, and wooden houses among others (Kwofie, et al., 2011). Thus, housing in this era was seen as merely a place to lie ahead and pass the night. Later in the history of man in his development and civilization, housing was looked at as a place for living and comfort beyond what was previously seen as simply providing shelter and protection. As the population increases in cities, social and public health problems begin to increase. The Industrial Revolution in the Western world drew attention to these health problems which housing has a great role to play spanning numerous studies on housing and health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2006).