Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Through Smart Sustainability and Property Governance in Nigeria’s Housing Sector

Nigeria’s housing sector faces persistent inequalities, with marginalized groupsdisproportionately excluded from access, decision-making, and benefits. Despite globaladvances in smart sustainability and inclusive governance, these principles remaininadequately integrated into Nigeria’s property governance frameworks, creating a gap inevidence-based strategies to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). This paperaddresses this gap by examining how smart sustainability practices including green buildingtechnologies, renewable energy, climate-resilient planning, and digital land governance can beembedded within governance frameworks to promote EDI outcomes. Using a rigorousconceptual methodology that combines policy analysis, stakeholder interviews, and documentreviews, the study identifies systemic barriers and enablers for implementing inclusive housinggovernance. Findings indicate that achieving EDI requires a hybrid governance model thatintegrates technological efficiency with human-centric participatory mechanisms, addressesthe digital divide, and strengthens institutional capacity. The study contributes a frameworklinking smart sustainability, governance quality, and social inclusion in the Nigerian context.It concludes with actionable recommendations for policymakers, developers, and researchersto design housing systems that are equitable, environmentally resilient, and socially inclusive.