The government has outlined some eight priority areas aimed at ensuring the country's housing challenges are addressed.
The areas include: reviving all stalled housing projects, fast track ongoing affordable housing project, initiate an expansion of public sector housing and securing and expanding land banks. • Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (third from right), Ms Fatimatu Abubakar (fourth from left) with other dignitaries after the presser Photo: Stephanie Birikorang The other four priority areas are developing Public Private Partnership framework to reduce the existing housing deficit, develop sustainable financing for housing projects, start of district housing programme and legal and policy framework.
Currently, the country's housing deficit has been reduced from about 2.2million to 1.8million and to ensure that this figure does not shoot up, the eight announced priorities will help maintain the figure at equilibrium while efforts are made to drive it further down.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who was taking his turn at the minister's briefing organised by the Ministry of Information in Accra yesterday said one of the challenges that had confronted the housing sector was that over the years, not enough programmes had been put in place to address the situation.