5.7.2
Affordable Housing
A National Housing Policy which seeks to provide adequate, decent and affordable
housing that is accessible and sustainable with infrastructural facilities using private
enterprise, with government as facilitator or partner where appropriate, has been prepared
and ready for Cabinet.
The Ministry of Works and Housing with support from UN-Habitat completed a study
and produced a report, Ghana Housing Sector Profile.
The Government of Ghana’s Affordable Housing Programme owns 4,720 housing units
that are at various stages of completion are located at Borteyman, Kpone, AsokoreMampong, Koforidua, Tamale and Wa.
5.7.3
Street Naming Project
The Government of Ghana and the Economic Commission of Africa (ECA) had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide technical assistance for the country’s
street naming and house numbering project.
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) had developed a
policy manual to guide Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the
implementation of the street naming and house numbering project.
STX Housing Project
The STX Housing Project which aims at providing 200,000 housing units to reduce the
housing deficit in the country has been stalled because of boardroom wrangling between
the Ghanaian and Korean partners.
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