Become a member
Join the union and add your voice to a collective that landlords and government have to listen to.
Four goals, sixteen regions.
Ways to get involved
Whether you have an hour a week or want to lead in your community, there's a place for you.
Volunteer
Help run drop-in advice, hand out fliers, or support tenants through their cases in your area.
Partner with us
Media, civil society, faith and transport groups, donors: work with us to reach every tenant.
Start a local association
Bring the tenants in your community together and set up an association backed by the union.
Our plan
Four goals that turn our strategic aims into work on the ground, region by region.
01
Establish community-based tenants' associations across all 16 regions
Rigorous recruitment at the regional, district, and community level, so every tenant in the country has a local association to turn to, not just a national office.
02
Run a national education program on tenancy rights and responsibilities
Built with partners such as the media, religious leaders, government agencies, civil society, and transport unions, and backed by fliers, newsletters, training manuals, and comic posters that reach people where they already are.
03
Influence government housing and human settlements policy
A working partnership with the Ministry of Works and Housing and the Rent Control Department, so tenants have a seat at the table when policy is written, not just when it's enforced.
04
Secure sustainable funding for the union's programs
Funding proposals to donors and philanthropists who share our vision, alongside a growing base of members willing to support the work directly.
Organising in all sixteen regions
Local tenants' associations are being set up across the country. Don't see one near you yet? Help us start it →
- Active
- Starting
- Not started
16regions, one union
1 with a running association, 3 being set up
- Upper West: Not started yet
- Upper East: Not started yet
- North East: Not started yet
- Northern: Being set up
- Savannah: Not started yet
- Oti: Not started yet
- Bono East: Not started yet
- Bono: Not started yet
- Ahafo: Not started yet
- Ashanti: Not started yet
- Eastern: Not started yet
- Volta: Being set up
- Western North: Not started yet
- Western: Not started yet
- Central: Being set up
- Greater Accra: Association running
Know the law that protects you.
Every tenant in Ghana is covered by these three laws. Read them in full to understand your rights and your landlord's responsibilities.
- Act 220Rent Act, 1963The main law on rent, tenancies, advance rent and eviction.Read it in full · Parliament of Ghana (opens in a new tab)
- PNDCL 138Rent Control Law, 1986Strengthens the Rent Act and the powers of the Rent Control Department.Read it in full · Parliament of Ghana (opens in a new tab)
- L.I. 369Rent Regulations, 1964How rent cases are brought, heard and appealed under the Rent Act.Read it in full · Judicial Service of Ghana (opens in a new tab)
There are an estimated 15 million private renters in Ghana. Join the union, and add your voice to a collective that landlords and government alike have to listen to.
Become a member
- Advisory help lineAvailable 24/7
- Drop-in adviceOpen to all tenants
- Legal aidPro bono, where critical