Abandoned Public Housing Projects Reactivation: A Sustainable Approach | Chapter 01 | Innovations in Science and Technology Vol. 3

 There is a pressing need to create homes in Ghana to address the country's ever-increasing housing shortage. Improper planning and incoherent political actions are among the fundamental causes, and mismanagement and subsequent abandonment of public housing projects are not ruled out. Even initiatives to provide shelter that were started during the colonial period have been abandoned. Some housing projects have been started only for political reasons (to save face), only to be abandoned along the road. Worse, some were started to appease voters in order to avoid threats and defection from them, despite the fact that officials are aware that the government's funds cannot complete those projects. The goal of this research is to come up with a long-term strategy for reactivating abandoned public housing buildings. The report identifies three key causes of public housing project abandonment: inadequate project implementation, negative politics used by governments that result in public project abandonment, and a lack of proper structures to secure the continuation of public projects when governments change. These three basic groups of causes were narrowed iteratively until the root causes were discovered. With the help of a "Cause and Effect Diagram," this information is then utilised to create a model that might be used to both revive and sustain abandoned housing developments. The model identified three key characteristics that, if implemented, may result in project reactivation. These include proper implementation of public housing projects, favourable government politics, and enough structures to ensure that public housing programmes continue even if the government changes.

Author(S) Details

Kwadwo Twumasi-Ampofo
CSIR - Building and Road Research Institute, UPO Box 40, KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana.

Ernest Osei –Tutu
CSIR - Building and Road Research Institute, UPO Box 40, KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana.

Isaac Decardi-Nelson
CSIR - Building and Road Research Institute, UPO Box 40, KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana.

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