Ghana: Huge Rent Advance Renders Thousands Homeless in Kumasi

Kumasi — Painstaking findings by Chronicle in Kumasi indicate that thousands of people in the metropolis are homeless. They are unable to afford what can be described as the colossal amount of monies demanded as rent advance by landlords and landladies in and around the Kumasi metropolis.

A number of prospective tenants most of whom are in their late 20s and early 30s shared similar sentiments and called on the government to expedite action on the proposed law to regulate rent advance in the country.

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