Ghana has three dominant modes of housing tenure: owner occupancy, renting and rent free. Rent free has been a substantial
tenure mode in Ghana over the years. It was the major type of tenure in the country before 1998 when it became the next
major type of tenure after owning (GSS, 2005). This study aims at estimating the determinants of the housing tenure decisions
in Ghana. it employed the multinomial logit model to achieve this objective. It was found that a household’s decision to rent is
positively influenced by location in the forest and coastal ecological zones, urban location, a household head with basic
education and the income of the household head. Location in the forest ecological zone, urban location, household heads with
bachelor’s degrees and employed household heads are the main positive determinants of the decision to stay rent free. Rent
free, as a tenure choice is substantial and serves young graduates; the state should therefore make deliberate efforts to
sustain and maintain the extended family system, since it is the major provider of rent free housing units in Ghana