Critical success factors of public private partnership for affordable housing in Nigeria

Abstract

Public private partnership was introduce by the Nigerian Government as an option to end the current crisis of housing shortage and affordable housing in the country. The aim of this paper is to identify the critical success factors of PPP for provision of affordable housing in Abuja. Based on the current studies PPP has not made any significant contribution to housing for low-income earners; rather it is suddenly change towards providing housing for high- and middle-income earners. The paper relies on interview with PPP expert to build up questionnaire survey on success factors of PPP for affordable housing in Nigeria. In total, 254 responses were obtain and analyzed using smart PLS to determine the success factors of PPP for affordable housing in Abuja. The results reveals that there are Six key component success factors of PPP for affordable housing provision in Abuja, this include; Strong Government support, access to alternative fund, favorable investment environment, available of competent personnel, transparency procurement process, and open communication among others. It therefore suggests that government should strongly provide a policies to support the success of PPP for affordable housing provision in Abuja, and also provide a means of subsidy to promote PPP toward provision of affordable housing. Therefore, it’s recommended that a good framework on affordable housing using PPP should put in place for a successful affordable housing provision.