Public Private Partnerhip (PPP) is celebrated globaly as a means of infrastructre delivery. PPP has been adopted in Nigeria for the construction of affordable housing in the country. But little achievement was recorded by the scheme. The aim of this study is to assess a typical PPP housing arrangement in Bauchi, Nigeria, as a means of providing affordable housing. Exploratory and explanatory research design was used in this study. Data was collected from Bauchi State Ministry of Lands Housings (BSML&H), Private developers and Mortgage institute. The findings shows that Bauchi State government sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 21 private housing develpers for the construction of 5,000 units of housings across the state in 2008. The PPP arrengement shows that Bauchi state government is responsible for the provision of lands and infrastructure while private developers will provide contract document, finance, physical construction of the project and choose Primary Mortgage Institutes (PMIs) for marketing and selling of the completed housing units. Record shows that only 228 units (4.6%) of the housing were completed and sold in 2014. The poor performance of the scheme was related to short of finance from state government and inability of the developers to access housing loan. Therefore this study recommend that comprehensive feasibility and viability study should be conducted before embarking on such arrengement. Partners should fulfil their contractual obligations. Lastly, the general public should patronise the completed projects for its successful implementation.© 2018 ijrei. com. All rights reserved