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The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye has described the new data on housing that puts the national housing deficit at 1.8m, a 33% reduction from the previous 2.8 million as great news and one that will further inspire the sector Ministry to commit to its new housing programmes that seek to further bridge the deficit and address the country’s housing challenges.

Research from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicates that the country’s housing deficit in the last 50-year period continually witnessed an upward trend from a figure of 1 million to 2.8 million from 1950 to 2010.

However, the 2021 Population and Housing Census data on structures, housing conditions and facilities as presented by the GSS reveals a reversal in the housing deficit by 33 per cent.

This, according to GSS, points to possibly some of the interventions that are happening both from the governmental point of view and from the private sector point of view.