Connecting-Africa | Find publications

Advanced search

Find:


Title A FRAME WORK FOR THE PROMOTION OF CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETIES IN GHANA
Full text http://dspace.knust.edu.gh/dspace/handle/123456789/645
Date 1988
Author(s) OWUSU, STEPHEN E.
Abstract The concern of most government and decision makers, especially in the developing countries like Ghana, is about how to manage adequate and decent housing for the middle and low income households. The co-operative form of organisation is one of the approaches that have been adopted to meet this requirement in a number of countries. Unfortunately, co-operative housing societies have been in Ghana since 1956 but their contribution to the housing stock has been insignificant. This poor performance can be attributed to the method in which the co-operatives have been established and inadequate institutional arrangements for promoting and supporting them. This paper reviews Ghana's experience and discusses issues and established and discusses issues and a procedure for promotion and establishment of effective and self-supporting co-operative housing societies in the country
Publisher KNUST
Identifier 0855-0395
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
Added to C-A: 2010-02-23;08:57:19