خلاصة:
Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing 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 on public servants in the three tiers of government. The new housing policy through public-private partnership promises to make housing available and affordable to this class of the citizens. The study reveals that the low-income public servants embrace the public-private partnership initiative in housing provision. Recommendations were proffered in making the public-private partnership in housing delivery a workable panacea for the housing problems of the low-income members of the society
ملخص الجهاز:
Evaluation of Public Servants’ Acceptability of Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for Low-Income Public Servants in Akure, Nigeria Abraham Adeniyi Taiwo Ph. D.
The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing 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 on public servants in the three tiers of government.
A number of reasons can be adduced for this, which include: a wrong perception of the housing needs of the low-income earners, who incidentally constitute the vast majority of urban dwellers; the proposal of typical housing that is not rooted in the different Nigeria’s climatic, cultural and socio-economic environments; improper planning and poor execution of housing policies and programmes; undue politicizing of government housing programmes and the lack of the political will and astuteness to carry out government housing programmes to logical conclusions; unrealistically high cost of houses built for the low-income people, and insensitivity of government to the operations of the private sector in housing delivery (Olotuah and Ajayi, 2008).
MATERIALS AND METHODS This paper reports findings from a research conducted on evaluation of public servants’ acceptability of public-private partnership in housing delivery for low-income public servants in Akure, Nigeria.
8% ), they were of the view that mass housing for the low-income public servants needs to shift from government to the private sector (item 2).
5%) percent of the respondents were of the view that right incentives should be provided for the private sector to effectively deliver housing to the low- income public servants (item 3).