{"id":59396,"date":"2025-01-11T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59396"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:21:47","slug":"abuja-rent-crisis-deepens-as-residents-struggle-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/11\/abuja-rent-crisis-deepens-as-residents-struggle-to-cope\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Rent Crisis Deepens as Residents Struggle to Cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As rents soar in Abuja, many residents face financial strain, forcing some to relocate, downsize, or share accommodation to survive.<\/p>\n<p>With inflation rising and incomes stagnant, housing costs have become unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>Amaka Okafor, a civil servant, had to leave her Gwarimpa apartment and move back to her hometown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying in Abuja has become unsustainable,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Others, like Ahmed Bello, a private-sector worker, are choosing shared living arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not ideal, but better than being homeless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even landlords are feeling the pinch. A Wuse property owner admitted to negotiating rent reductions to retain tenants.<\/p>\n<p>Abuja\u2019s housing market crisis has reached a breaking point, with no clear relief in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts urge government intervention and affordable housing initiatives, warning that without action, more residents may be forced out of Nigeria\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu As rents soar in Abuja, many residents face financial strain, forcing some to relocate, downsize, or share accommodation to survive. With inflation rising and incomes stagnant, housing costs have become unbearable. Amaka Okafor, a civil servant, had to leave her Gwarimpa apartment and move back to her hometown. \u201cStaying in Abuja has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59397,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396\/revisions\/59397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}