State Housing MD Seeks Big Push Support For Dedesua Green City Project, Mahama Promises Help.

The Managing Director of the State Housing Company Limited, Mr. John S. Bawah, has appealed to government to channel Big Push funding into the horizontal infrastructure for the Green City Affordable Housing project in Dedesua in the Ashanti Region.

Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, Mr. Bawah said government support for roads, drains, and sewage works would help keep the cost of the houses down and protect the project’s price positioning for low- and middle-income buyers.

“When the Big Push supports us with the horizontal infrastructure, it will go a long way in maintaining our price positioning.

If we have to bear those costs ourselves, the houses become more expensive for the people we want to serve,”he explained.

He added that the first phase of the Green City project is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Responding to the appeal, President John Dramani Mahama assured that government would back the State Housing Company to expand affordable housing across the country.

He said he would direct the Roads Minister to absorb the cost of roads and drains in the area under the Big Push programme.

“I will inform the roads minister so that we absorb all the roads and drains in this area under the Big Push program,” President Mahama said.

He warned that without that support, the cost of the infrastructure would have to be added to the house prices, making them unaffordable for the target beneficiaries.

The Green City project in Dedesua is designed to deliver modern, environmentally friendly housing units with supporting utilities, as part of government’s broader plan to reduce Ghana’s housing deficit.

Story by Bismark Mensah@A/R.