{"id":394302,"date":"2018-01-23T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=394302"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:56:16","slug":"well-complete-abandoned-housing-projects-atta-kyea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/well-complete-abandoned-housing-projects-atta-kyea\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll complete &#8216;abandoned&#8217; housing projects -Atta Kyea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Kyea, has told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that the New Patriotic Party [NPP] government is committed to completing housing projects started under previous administrations.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government is looking for funds to complete the affordable housing projects started under former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also going round to find monies out of budgetary source to finance these projects so that our people can go and live in, that is a must,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Z1H2AlRQSLojRPyZ0VO20jvU0CyElYBC&#8221;]He said the government has assessed the projects to determine how much it will cost to complete the buildings, adding that such projects will not be allowed to go waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done what is called quantity surveying, we have come out with bills of quantities as to how much it will cost to complete them\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Housing Programme was launched back in September 2005 by former President Kufuor, and was aimed at providing housing to low and middle-income workers of the country. It is supposed to provide accommodation for at least 12,000 families.<\/p>\n<p>But work on the project has not been consistent, with successive governments failing on the various timelines.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Engineer for the Affordable Housing project in Koforidua, Bio Sackey, has said that an estimated GhC117 million will be needed to complete the whole project.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Housing project under Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NDC under the leadership of <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/01\/ill-complete-mahamas-housing-projects-atta-akyea\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>John Mahama<\/strong><\/span><\/a> initiated a 1,500 housing unit project at Ningo to provide affordable housing for Ghanaians in a bid to reduce the country\u2019s housing deficit of about 1.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Ningo project was among the few John Mahama initiated to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Kufuor initiated the <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/14\/1524-affordable-housing-units-wasting-away-at-kpone-photos\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Kpone affordable housing project<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as well as others in Borteman also in the Greater Accra Region and Kumasi in the Ashanti Region,\u00a0at a cost of over $300 million funded by the Government of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The project consultant then, Ernest Biney, promised that the project will be completed in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>But the current state of the structures will demand extensive works to make them usable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Farida Abernie Ola Yusif\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Kyea, has told Citi News\u00a0that the New Patriotic Party [NPP] government is committed to completing housing projects started under previous administrations. 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