{"id":184041,"date":"2024-11-06T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-accelerating-home-ownership-in-ghana-turning-socioeconomic-challenges-into-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:14:42","slug":"ghana-accelerating-home-ownership-in-ghana-turning-socioeconomic-challenges-into-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-accelerating-home-ownership-in-ghana-turning-socioeconomic-challenges-into-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Accelerating Home Ownership in Ghana &#8211; Turning Socioeconomic Challenges Into Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"101\">FOR many Ghanaians, the dream of owning a home is often tempered by the financial strain of a mortgage, a commitment that can span decades and require careful financial planning. In recent years, the economic climate has intensified these challenges, such as high inflation, increasing interest rates, and a fluctuating currency have added significant pressure on homeowners working to maintain their mortgage payments. In October 2023, inflation reached a staggering 40.1per cent,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction FOR many Ghanaians, the dream of owning a home is often tempered by the financial strain of a mortgage, a commitment that can span decades and require careful financial planning. In recent years, the economic climate has intensified these challenges, such as high inflation, increasing interest rates, and a fluctuating currency have added significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[7048,258,256,6977,4508,4509,8849,257,13281,12866,7050,254,15335],"class_list":["post-184041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accelerating","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-home","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-ownership","tag-socioeconomic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}