President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans for a Low-Cost Housing Scheme for Public Sector Workers.
The President made the disclosure at Juaboso in his address at a durbar of the Chiefs and People of the Western North Region during his Thank You Tour of the Region.
The nationwide Thank You Tour is to enable the President to express gratitude to Ghanaians for their massive support during the 2024 general election.
President Mahama said housing pressures had become a major headache for the Ghanaian working class and that the Government had a housing project that would be rolled out in the district capitals of the nation.
He appealed to traditional leaders and property owners to exercise restraint, adding that the government would roll out the Low-Cost Housing for Public Sector Workers scheme with a focus on regional and district capitals.
He reiterated that under the Scheme, the Government would partner with workers’ unions and financial institutions to construct decent low-cost rental and rent-to-own housing units for health workers, teachers, and other public sector workers.
He said people who had between 15 and 20 years to retire could apply to own one of the houses.
“If you want to own it where you are working, when we finish the house, you can live in it. And then you pay little by little until you own it. We will deduct it from your salary every month,” he said.
“And by the time you are going on retirement, you will own the house. And you don’t have to go to your family house and go and quarrel with your relatives.