Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Housing Provision in Lagos Megacity Region, Nigeria
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The adoption of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in housing provision in Nigeria
is intended to increase urban housing stock and address housing affordability and accessibility
challenges. However, to date, very little is known about how PPP housing schemes have
addressed these challenges. This paper therefore explores the extent to which PPP in housing
provision has so far contributed to solving the housing challenges in the Lagos Megacity
Region of Nigeria. The paper presents the result of a cross-sectional survey of operators
of PPP schemes and housing consumers in the study area. The results show that the PPP
approach is basically a formal joint venture partnership involving government providing land
at subsidised cost and the provision of serviced plots or construction of housing units by private
sector partners. Although the approach has provided affordable serviced plots and housing
units for a few high income elites, it has contributed very little to the volume of housing units
available to low-income people in Lagos. The paper suggests the adoption of a uniform policy
on PPP in housing provision and the establishment of a co-ordinating agency. In addition,
government involvement in the provision of infrastructure in PPP housing schemes could
increase the affordable housing stock accessible to low-income people in the city.
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H Social Sciences (General)