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Housing Policy in Ghana: The Feasible Paths

Ghana Journal of Development Studies

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Title Housing Policy in Ghana: The Feasible Paths
 
Creator Boamah, NA
 
Subject Housing Policy, Housing Finance, Planning Controls, Housing Research, Ghana
 
Description Several housing policies have been implemented in Ghana since independence in 1957. Despite these policies, housing in Ghana is characterized by inadequate housing stock, overcrowding, congestion, housing decay, and neighbourhood blight. The paper examines the outcomes of pre and post-colonial housing policies in Ghana. It determines the feasible way forward for the country’s housing policy. This is done through literature, documentary and archival surveys. It notes that past housing policy interventions in Ghana failed to realize their intended objectives. The paper suggests that housing policies in the country should focus on developing the housing finance market; establishing community based housing finance schemes; enforcement of planning controls; and confining government’s role to regulating the housing market rather than assuming housing developer and financier responsibilities.Keywords: Housing Policy, Housing Finance, Planning Controls, Housing Research, Ghana
 
Publisher Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-06-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/104413
10.4314/gjds.v11i1.1
 
Source Ghana Journal of Development Studies; Vol 11, No 1 (2014); 1-18
0855-6768
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/104413/94494
 
Rights Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana