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Management of Africa Support Network (ASN) Financial services Limited, have launched the Home Investment Fund (HIF) to assist every Ghanaian purchase a home. Over the years, land acquisition and documentation has rendered home ownership difficult but with HIF, the product has been tailored to assist Ghanaians do away with the problems of land litigation, family land disputes and the menace of landguards. Mr Prince Sarpong, the Group Chief Executive Officer of ASN described Ghana as a country that has a social housing problem and a deficit of about 1.7 million housing units. He made this comment at during the launch of HIF at the Greenfields site of ASN Construction Limited, a subsidiary of ASN Holdings Company in the Kpone Katamanso municipality of the Greater Accra region According to him, this figure is projected to exist for ten years; spanning 2010 to 2020, the deficit is projected to increase after the period stated above, since the population is growing at a rate of 2.1 percent per annum as stated by the Ghana Statistical Service report of 2013. He said the government�s inability to provide houses to commensurate with the growing population requires Public Partnership to help address the housing needs of the citizens. �Our vision of one million houses in a ten -year period is to make homeownership a possibility through the Home Investment Fund which is an easy and affordable homeownership product�, he said He added HIF offers potential homeowners the opportunity and privilege to make periodic investments over a period of one to five years towards the attainment of a minimum of 20 percent of the price of a building, while ASN Financial Services completes the payment process with an affordable mortgage facility. He said the mortgage facility of the ASN is arguably the most affordable on the market at a rate between 15 to 20 percent per annum. Our target markets are individuals, workers in private and public institutions as well as associations as the company is duly licensed by the Bank of Ghana. He explained the ongoing Greenfields project has over two hundred semi-detached, two bedroom houses; two hundred detached three- bedroom affordable houses at different stages of completion are a testimony of the company�s effort to make homeownership a reality for all.