{"id":393604,"date":"2018-01-22T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T05:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393604"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T14:25:58","slug":"ghanas-housing-crisis-cost-land-450-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393604","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s housing crisis: Cost of land up by 450% in 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years Ghana has been battling with finding a solution to its housing challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from players in the housing sector show Ghana&#8217;s housing deficit ranges from 1.7 million to 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Despite moves by successive Governments and the private sector to reduce the deficit, it appears the multiplicity of the problem makes it difficult to find solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In the first of our new series dubbed &#8221;Ghana&#8217;s housing crisis&#8221; which focuses on the industry&#8217;s problems and how they can be solved, we examine the increasing cost of acquiring land and its availability in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click to listen to full audio report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/386912561&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Bobbie Osei\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years Ghana has been battling with finding a solution to its housing challenges. Figures from players in the housing sector show Ghana&#8217;s housing deficit ranges from 1.7 million to 2 million. Despite moves by successive Governments and the private sector to reduce the deficit, it appears the multiplicity of the problem makes it difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":393605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[16327,2167,8657],"class_list":["post-393604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","tag-greda","tag-landguards","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}