{"id":192483,"date":"2025-02-28T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-displaced-as-rents-double-in-inflation-hit-lagos\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:14:58","slug":"nigerians-displaced-as-rents-double-in-inflation-hit-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-displaced-as-rents-double-in-inflation-hit-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Displaced As Rents Double in Inflation-Hit Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nigeria&#8217;s economic crisis is hitting renters in Lagos hard as landlords pass down the costs of spiralling inflation &#8212; pushing residents further out, upending children&#8217;s education and adding to workers&#8217; already infamous commutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">With a population of more than 20 million, the country&#8217;s sprawling, ever-growing economic capital has for years struggled to keep up with housing demand, with some 3,000 people added to its population per day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">But government-led economic reforms, including the floating of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280327.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s economic crisis is hitting renters in Lagos hard as landlords pass down the costs of spiralling inflation &#8212; pushing residents further out, upending children&#8217;s education and adding to workers&#8217; already infamous commutes. With a population of more than 20 million, the country&#8217;s sprawling, ever-growing economic capital has for years struggled to keep up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6664,7053,43209,2477,257,393,6665,9958,254],"class_list":["post-192483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-displaced","tag-double","tag-inflationhit","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-rents","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}