The global COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated issues of isolation, enhanced hygiene practices and contact tracing brought up a number of issues to the public domain, many of …
Decades of political ambivalence, housing injustice, and a neoliberal housing sector aided by the government's lax approach to housing provision have meant that, private rental …
The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2 or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is …
Compound and shared low-income houses in Ghana have economic, social, cultural, and familial advantages. Yet, COVID-19 and its related lockdown and home confinement in two …
High mortgage repayment-to-income ratios and unavailability of adequate and secured collateral are major setbacks for low-income households in accessing housing finance. This …
C Liu, Y Deng, W Song, Q Wu… - … and Planning A …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Uneven development theory and its corollary (ie rent-gap theory) are either excessively general or insufficiently flexible to expound the variations of gentrification with unique …
The prevailing norm in Ghana's rental housing market involves a mandatory and recurrent advance rent payment of two years or more by renters to their landlords. This paper employs …
MN Addy, B Ateko, BM Roberts, D Opoku… - Architectural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing global temperature points to the need to combat the intense heat in tropical regions. Mechanical cooling systems are one of the main ways to address this challenge …
Purpose In Ghana, the practice of landlords demanding that renters pay rent advance (RA) of between six months and five years is well noted. Surprisingly, renters appear divided into …