Genealogies of Ghana’s housing crisis: the role of colonial interventions and neoliberal reforms

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dc.contributor.authorAddo, I.A.
dc.contributor.authorMba, C.C.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-27T11:25:40Z
dc.date.available2024-05-27T11:25:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe urgent need to develop and increase housing units has always featured prominently in electioneering campaigns in Ghana. Successive governments have developed countless programmes to deal with the housing deficit, but there has not been a significant improvement. As we write, the government Ghana is grappling with a housing deficit of over two million units. But why has this problem remained intractable despite what seems like concerted efforts by various administrations to provide affordable housing for Ghana’s more vulnerable populations? Focusing on the 2015 National Housing Policy, this article critically reviews Ghana’s various housing policies and reforms. exploring how colonial policies and neoliberal reforms are separately and jointly implicated, in fundamental ways, in Ghana’s currently engulfing housing crisis. Our findings reveal that the yawning gap is noticeable in Ghana’s overall effort at housing provision for the populace is rooted in the colonial logic of piecemeal intervention. This same logic has continued to traverse successive Ghanaian housing policies through the immediate postcolonial era, the adjustment years, and the current perioden_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.1999127
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/41994
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Housing Policyen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectGhana’s housing policyen_US
dc.subjectneoliberal reformsen_US
dc.titleGenealogies of Ghana’s housing crisis: the role of colonial interventions and neoliberal reformsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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