Architect. Housing entrepreneur. Design thinker.

Oluwadare Olusola Dada has spent nearly two decades designing, building, and financing residential, commercial, and institutional developments and managing real estate developments across Nigeria. His experience in housing eventually led to a deeper question: Why does finding a decent, affordable place to live remain so difficult—even when we know how to build?
That question became an exploration into land, cities, infrastructure, economics, neighbourhoods, productivity and opportunity.
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His own struggle for affordable housing—and the system that made it nearly impossible—is what led him to co-found PetitHaus, a housing company reimagining homeownership in Lagos through shared land acquisition and progressive, income-responsive design. And, eventually, to write this book.
He splits his time between Lagos and Casablanca.

"I didn't write this as an architect explaining cities from a safe distance. I wrote it as someone who has personally failed to own a home in the city he loves."