The Ministry of Works and Housing has stressed that government is working assiduously to bridge the housing shortage in the country and provide quality accommodation for public sector workers.
The Ministry said the government is set to commence two main projects under the revised affordable housing scheme in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions soon to achieve this goal.
The Sector Minister, Francis Asenso-Boakye said the government is committed to solving the housing shortage confronting the country.
A new revised affordable housing programme that will support private sector developers and the State Housing Company Limited (SHC) to put up houses at reduced prices is in the offing.
Under the new scheme, government would support private developers with serviced lands to construct horizontal buildings to cut the cost of construction up to 40 per cent.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye explained that the revised scheme would allow developers to “build and sell” affordable houses to about 60 per cent of public sector workers who need decent accommodation for themselves and their families.
He also said the revised scheme would first be undertaken in Pokuase in the Greater Accra Region and Dedeso in the Ashanti Region, where the President would soon cut the sod after the projects had gone through statutory legal processes.
The apartments, ‘Seasons Courts,’ sited at Adentan Housing Down, are two-bedroom and three-bedroom self-contained houses targeted at providing accommodation for 16 families.
Constructed by the SHC, the two blocks were named after two long-serving staff of the company, Samuel Osei and Alfred Odoom Fynn, who served the company for more than 30 years.
He said government recognized that to be able to provide the kind of affordable houses that Ghanaians needed, it would have to play a role.
SOURCE: GRAPHICONLINE