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Title:Perceptions and acceptability of multihabitation as an urban low income housing strategy in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
Author:Appeaning Addo, Irene
Year:2013
Periodical:Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330)
Volume:24
Issue:4
Pages:543-571
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:urban housing
housing policy
rental housing
Abstract:A study was conducted among households in five low income communities in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area to examine the perceptions and acceptability of multihabitation in 21st-century, urban, low-income housing provision in Ghana. It emerged that there were challenges associated with multihabitation living arrangements. Almost all the bathrooms and toilets were shared in multihabited dwellings, while electricity was shared in some houses. These shared facilities were the main causes of conflicts. Public health has also been raised as a concern. Overcrowding, too, lowered households' satisfaction. People preferred to stay in multihabited dwellings as long as the sharing of facilities was addressed and some form of privacy was achieved. There were also social and financial capital advantages as well as psychosocial benefits such as security and stability as a result of the close relationships under multihabitation. The author suggests that governments should adopt multihabitation in urban low income housing provision in the 21st century, be it with some design modifications. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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