The Rivers State government of Nigeria 2008 vision of building a thriving, economically vibrant and diverse world class competitive and attractive model city tagged the ‘Greater Port Harcourt City’ in the midst of predominant agricultural communities was believed to see the light of the day if community residents primary source of income and basic socio-cultural activities are sustainably absorbed to form part of the mechanism to drive the development plan. This gives room to the rolling out of several strategic plans with agropolitan residential housing development as one which happens to be the focus of this paper. The idea is concentrated in creating an inclusive and self-sustainable agropolitan residential housing development that will be operated on a private sector model which will successfully engage even the poorest of the poor and provide access to decent affordable housing, employment and revenue generation through conscious involvement in agriculture, light support industries, real estate activities, power generation and distribution, waste management and recycling. The aim of this paper is to assess the residents level of acceptance of this agropolitan project with measurable objectives which are to ascertain the residents’ personal attributes of income, gender, educational status, marital status and occupation in the study area; ascertain the acceptability of the proposed social housing development amongst potential beneficiaries and explore residents’ personality variables in explaining the variation in acceptability of agropolitan social housing development in Greater Port Harcourt City. The study relied on the output of survey questionnaire items retrieved from 258 heads of households in 8 selected communities of the Greater Port Harcourt city. The findings of the study revealed the residents level of acceptance of agropolitan social housing development with modal response as “Yes”, accounting for 78.7% of the distribution. The reason for residents’ acceptance was captured in the order of modal first to three mention which are “More persons will own better homes (27.3%), it will enable me own my personal house (18.2%) and it will solve the housing problem in the area (16.3%) respectively’. Finally, using residents’ personality variables (income, education, gender, marital status and occupation) in explaining the variation in acceptability of agropolitan social housing development, the study found out that the level of acceptance of

Keywords : Greater Port Harcourt, Agropolitan, Sustainable Housing, Personality Variables, Residents’ Acceptability