The Director of Communications and Cooperate Affairs for the National Tenants Union of Ghana, Reindolph Afrifa-Oware has said, “Ghana’s housing affordability crisis is the result of deliberate policy choices and chronic underfunding that have persisted for decades by successive governments”.
According to him, home ownership is the preferred housing choice for Ghanaian families because it builds wealth; but due to difficulty in land acquisition and many unresolved land issues in the law court, most families are forced to remain in the rental market.
He said issues of rent in the country is difficult as upward unilateral adjustments in rent drive those with less income and less wealth into more insecure and unstable rental houses.
Speaking to Class News on the back of the introduction of the National Rental Assistance Scheme (NRAS) by the government, he indicated Research from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) that, the country’s housing deficit in the last 50-year period continually witnessed an upward trend which now stands at 1.8 million and needs a deliberate action and commitments to affect a maximum change.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com
