{"id":87803,"date":"2026-04-15T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87803"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:57:03","slug":"soaring-rents-and-a-four-hour-commute-the-misery-of-the-lagos-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/soaring-rents-and-a-four-hour-commute-the-misery-of-the-lagos-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1ab200c550a21f0db9e851fb61215db5337c7295\/0_0_4918_2926\/master\/4918.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"An aerial view of a sprawling cityscape\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every weekday before dawn, Oluwatobi Ogundipe leaves his small flat in Sango Ota, an industrial town in Ogun state, for a four hour commute to the glass towers of Lagos Island. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/apr\/15\/lagos-rent-crisis-wages-housing-growth\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Every weekday before dawn, Oluwatobi Ogundipe leaves his small flat in Sango Ota, an industrial town in Ogun state, for a four&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sanwo-olu.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87804,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87803\/revisions\/87804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}