Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to build hostels for female head porters (Kayayei) and the most vulnerable in society as part of his plans to promote the Ghanaian housing sector.
Nana Addo made this promise when he met officials of the Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) to lay out his policy direction in the housing sector on Monday.
According to Nana Addo, �these hostels will be running in conjunction with the skills training organisations so that residents will be obliged to undergo skills training. By the time they leave the hostel, they will be qualified to be independent.�
He said those who a allowed to live in the hostels will stay there for a maximum of four years within which they should be self-sufficient enough to fend for themselves.
Nana Akufo-Addo said his administration will build 200,000 housing units every year to reduce the housing deficits over the next ten years, if he wins the December polls. According to him, the housing programme is estimated to cost between $1.8 billion and $2.5 billion each year for ten years.
Nana Addo said he will establish a regulatory body and a housing agency tasked with identifying and creating additional land banks to meet current housing needs of the country. Nana Akufo-Addo said an NPP administration will encourage MMDAs to set up �District Housing Funds� to build housing units across the country.
He said the NPP will make this possible by increasing the District Assembly Common Fund by 2 and half per cent. �This programme will be developed in partnership with the private sector and District Assemblies and would be cross-subsidized from the other housing programmes.�
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