Evaluation of Public Servants’ Acceptability of Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for Low-Income Public Servants in Akure, Nigeria

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Abraham Taiwo ¹

1 - Ph.D., Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

Received: 2013-02-18 Accepted : 2013-07-08 Published : 2013-08-01

Keywords: Housing delivery, Housing policy, partnership, Private, Public servants,

Abstract :

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizenssince colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision ofhousing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’acceptability of this new housing policy was examined through a survey researchin which questionnaires were administered onpublic servants in the three tiers of government. The new housing policy through public-private partnership promises to makehousing available and affordable to this class of the citizens. The study reveals that the low-income public servants embrace thepublic-private partnership initiative in housing provision. Recommendations were proffered in making the public-private partnershipin housing delivery a workable panacea for the housing problems of the low-income members of the society.