With the rising demand for housing across the globe, rental housing has become a major
alternative in meeting deficit supply. However, there is a significant gap between what is …

Informal settlement growth in various countries has led to distinctive actions that enhance
low‐income populations' accessibility to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic …

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 …

Regardless of the anti-discrimination policies in place, discrimination is still prevalent within
the rental housing market. This poses some considerable challenges to potential …

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 …

Over the past decade there has been an increased capital flow from developed countries to
the real estate markets across West African countries. This trend is a direct reflection of a …

Abstract Urban Housing in Africa is dominated by the private rental sector. The sector
delivers over 90 percent of housing units in urban Ghana. In spite of this, the urban rental …

Despite being two separate nations within the United Kingdom1 the law and regulation of
the housing market in England and Wales has historically been identical. Even now …